
Believe it or not, all these iris photos were taken just in our own yard this year. My husband has many different kinds and it has been spectacular display. Enjoy!
It was delightful to get out into the woods today – the first time since fall. The skunk cabbage are perky harbingers of much more green to come!
This is the fabulous forsythia outside the pottery studio I work in on Tuesday mornings… What a treat of luscious vibrance!
People here plant crocus in their lawns as they will be finished before mowing is required. I think it’s a great idea. The patch in our yard is…
So glad to be home! The flowers in the yard have just exploded! Here is what greeted me as I got home…
The magnolias burst on the scene quickly this year, and lost their petals just as fast… emitting blissful fragrance meanwhile…
Loving the season… this is what my neighborhood looks like right now…
This tree, a house warming gift from my parents twenty years ago, gets better every year. Each season, it starts out fuchsia in the bud, blooms to pink and fades to very pale. By the time the petals blow away, it is as if snowing in May.
Hearing reports of gloriously blooming fruit trees in Annapolis, and places where their forsythia is bloomed and past, I have to own where our flowers are around here. The crocus have been unremarkable this year, we are on the early side for daffodils, although they are beginning to arrive, and the forsythia is only vaguely … Read more

Believe it or not, all these iris photos were taken just in our own yard this year. My husband has many different kinds and it has been spectacular display. Enjoy!

We initially planted allium because they would reportedly chase off the voles who were eating our tulip bulbs, but now we prize them on their own merit.