Took some pictures this morning. Compared to everyone else, my yard is so depressing. Almost makes you wanna get drunk to forget.
First, my annual bed. I just put in the pansies / petunias / marigolds, so they're not very full yet.
Got pictures of Adobe Sunrise.
My pond area. Please excuse the big mess...
You can see the untrimmed roses.. haven't gotten to them yet.
With the last snow we had, I lost almost all the flowers on my trees / lilacs. I got one.. count it ONE flower on my Red Plum "Thunderchild"
I have a couple of wild plum bushes on my property. Every time I dig them up, doesn't matter because they sucker bad & within a year, I have another bush! But they do produce edible plums & their flowers smell GOOD. I have a few flowers on one of them.
My staghorn sumac is still completely dormant.
This is what happens when I get a freeze & I have flower buds on a lilac. I don't think I will get ANY lilacs at all this year...
This is Mount Baker. All my lilacs are pretty much the same with burnt flower buds.
Only a few roses have more than 2-3 leaf stems on it. One of which is Camayeux that I got from Melva a few years ago.
Theresa Bugnet is another that has a lot of leaves, all things considering.
This here is about what almost 100% of all my roses look like. I don't even know who this is.. but you can see how far back I have to cut.
Pandemonia is also leafing out nicely compared to everyone else.
Only other thing other than dandelions / thistles growing like mad in my yard is the vinca. This past snow REALLY got it going! In this section, I believe there's 3 roses buried in the vinca.
So you can see why I want to cry when I see beautiful yards. Mine's pathetic.
