Beginner Gardening: The Hackberry Tree and other stuff..., 1 by SunnyBorders

SunnyBorders wrote:
Still got bulbs!
Below: our front garden today.
You are way ahead of us.
Today, the anenomes (ranunuloides and robisoniana have just started blooming). Love irises, but way too early. Only shrub roses and Explorer Series Roses are fully hardy here.
Love your picture of rhodendron (?), but as said, we have alkaline soil.
Had latter emphasized in my school, where a number of shrubs were donated for the flower beds I put in. One donor insisted I take rhododendrons, though garden didn't contain raised acidified beds. They only lasted about two years.
Pity because such pretty flowers.