Southside rose garden today after drastic rose prunning this past week. I have daffs and tulips in here as well as lilies for the summer. Plus lots of Wood Hyacinths towards the back that are showing folliage but the blooms are not up yet.

In the second picture you can see the water in the backround. Can't really see it from the side yard after all the shrubs leaf out. That is Long Island Sound. There is a lovely park here across the street from me and of course the beach.







My little 35 gallon in ground pond in the back yard all clean after I bailed it out of leaves blown in all winter and refilled it with clean water.



The big in ground pond in the front yard is a 350 gallon stocktank.




Really small flowered daffs bloom in front of the pond.



York Minister Daffs bloom along the walkway.

Lots of daffodils blooming in the front yard.

Wow, Rita! Everything looks so fantastic and you're so organized and have so much energy! Can I borrow you for a couple of weeks?

Betty, I had to get out there and at least prune all the roses back as spring came so early this year that they leafed out much faster than any other year before. That two week hot spell seems broken for now. It is chilly and windy today even though the sun is shinning. Not winter chilly though, just not the exceptionlly warm weather we have been having.

Forcythia in bloom.



Terraces gardens in back yard near my kitchen door. This garden area is a stunner in early summer as the daylilies, lilies, ris, roses, catmint and annuals bloom. I have the daffs there but I want to put in more spring bulbs in this area this fall. I plan to add more daffs, some tulips and a bunch of Chionodoxa. That very front bottom terrace mid part gets Portulas planted there for the past two years and I intend to do that again this year.



Front yard woodsey area. And the front yard pond again.

Rita, do you pick lots of bouquets of the daffs for inside?

Do you mix them or do one variety?

My daffs are beginning to bloom but every year they seem to diminish in size as I redo gardens. Not that much for picking this year. I miss them in the house.

No, I never pick them. I like my flowers to be outdoors. Never can get into indoor blooms. I have some areas were they are all one variety en mass and then others that are mixes. For instance those front yard daffs in the belgium block mini terraces are 200 of the Scheepers Long Trumpet Mix.

Everything is looking so beautiful.
Since I have no room here for planting (really wouldn't want to anyway since I hope to move closer to where my daylilies are) I have decided to plant a few things amongs my daylilies. I have a daylily bed that is just for the ones I enter into the daylily shows and don't plan to dig and divide them for awhile so I figured I could plant some things with them to give some color until full bloom season. I planted some petunias and some verbena (not the wild verbena you see growing along road sides although I just love that kind) already. I am going to plant some more verbena (kind of a burgundy wine color) and some yellow snapdragons. If I have room I'm going to put a couple of pots in there also with something in it but not sure what yet, maybe gaillardia (blanket flower).

I love to plant Snapdragons betwen my daylily plants. I usually just get a flat of the mixed variety annual ones. Not too tall. It gives me summer long color even when the daylilies are not in bloom. Plus I plant spring bulbs. I am a great believer that bulbs should be in all daylily beds. Usually it is tulips and daffodils. Plus lilies for summer color.

I am going to plant some bulbs in there this fall as well so I will have some spring color next year, definitley tulips and daffs.

I love the snapdragons too Rita. I planted some between the daylilies many years ago and I still have some come up every year. They seem to self seed themselves.

I love snapdragons too, every year I watch for little seedlings, if I don't like where they are growing I move them around to where I want them to grow.

Snapdragons come in so many beautiful colors these days. I plant at least some every year.

More pictures-



Tower Square Iris Garden. It has daffs and tulips in between for early spring color. Then the small middle square has yellow columbine, butterfly weed and Hummingbird mints. Plus clematis going up the tower.



The daffs by the serviceberry shrubs are still blooming away. I have two more rows of daffs directly in front of those ones there that I put in last fall but they are not showing buds yet.




Looking up the slope from the side of the driveway.



Red Alert Lillies are really growing.




Maria daffs along in the backyard beds.



Everything is growing in the big mid backyard bed.

Stunning daffs!! Nothing says Spring like them and tulips.

I was in Sam's Club today and they had some beautiful Easter Lillies. I told Dh to wait til the day after Easter and he could buy me two for the price of 1 and I'll plant them outside. They are another beautiful addititon to Spring.

Blessings, Mona

My first tulip blooms of the year are open today. But most are still tight buds so will have to still wait for the bigger show. It is really much colder today than it has been for a while. That might slow them down some more.

I have some open too but the sun isn't shining so they won't open.

Because of you Rita, I planted some tulips, hyacinths and daffs in some of my daylily beds last fall - and am beginning to reap the rewards.

Love your gardens and your photos ~j

Jan, that sounds great. I just love my spring bulbs. I try to add more each fall. Just mark were the bulbs are already planted and keep right on adding.

Rita, your garden is always beautiful, no matter what season it is. Your garden should be featured in a magazine by season.

Doris

Thank you Doris! I just like to be outside and fussing around in my garden. At least most of the time, not in winter though. I like to take pictures and post them too as I like to show whatever is going on around here.