At least beautiful ones like this

It's just lovely Sharon and your stacks and brickwork perfectly compliment the beautiful flowers.

I just picked a bouquet for the table - iris, weigela, red rose, yellow rose

And now mother nature is showing her other side here in a bit - thundering and dark

It's a little dreary and cooler here, too, Vic, which made the photos much clearer this morning. Everything was suddenly a much darker blue around here.

Oh yeah, love those surprises.
Along with the clematis, here's another section of the back yard, also blue and white.



I also have roses blooming and when the daylilies start, it will all transform itself again, reds and yellows, corals and purples. No blues for the daylilies, though, so I need to enjoy this blue while I have it.

I love it all, such a green, or is it blue and white, thumb you have. Going to a gardening RU on the 14th and hope to acquire some "color" for my yard.

Hi Pegi!!

Believe me, this wasn't the plan. It just all happened, all blooming at the same time, which is really unusual. The irises, the columbine and the heuchera are all a month early and it's a little early for the dead rhody to be blooming too. I actually thought it would not bloom this year. So it's all in the timing, I think, and I didn't have a thing to do with that.

I hope you get wonderful things at the RU!

I just added azalea and columbine to my bouquet

Yeah!!

What's your zone, Vicki? We seem to have many of the same things blooming.
You are south-er but I'm west-er, so maybe it is fairly similar.

Same as you Sharon - 7a -

Wow! A wedgewood garden. I love the blue iris. The only one I saw here this year was a wine coloured.

I have wild invasive clematis, I so much more love the tame one's.

Wedgewood.
I hadn't thought of that; only you, Gloria would ever think of wedgewood.

This is my first clematis ever. I hope I don't kill it.

Beautiful Sharon. Mother Nature has been giving me surprises this year also. Everything is blooming a month early. Then last week my MIL's old tulips which I never did dig up bloomed for the first time since after her death 20 years ago. Things I didn't think made through our mild winter are suddenly sprouting leaves.

I'm now watching and waiting to see what else She has in store for me to enjoy.

Nice surprises this year, really nice surprises. Amazing about your MIL's tulips. I love that.