The month of April started off cold and rainy. The grape Hyacinths and creeping phlox started off the season with great color.
Grape Hyacinth along pathway
Still have Daffodils in the front even though I keep moving them to the back.
Still wondering if this Chicory was a mistake to add to the landscape. It self seeds everywhere but the goldfinches love it.
My earliest blooming peony. I some times even opens when there is still snow.
I never get enough violets. My turtles love them also.
My Primrose started flowering in February and are still going strong. I have a stray cat that keeps raiding my pond and catching my fish. I find the bodies all over the yard with there heads chewed off.
My Primrose
These white hyacinths were buried under a bunch of plywood when I first bought my house. I dug them up and moved them. They have come up every year since 2009 and bloom every year since 2010.
My pond plants are off to a good start.
Red and yellow primrose.
Another tiny primrose
purple and yellow primrose.
My waterlilies broke the surface of the water a lot earlier than every one else I know with ponds in Pittsburgh.
I got more bluegills. The other ones. Hopefully some of these will live.
The bluegill are the same size as the goldfish right now.
My white flowering dogwood Finally has a lot of flowers this year. Last year was the first year it flowered and it only got one flower.
Primrose in full bloom.
Lilac
Hyacinths left over from Easter
Another hyacinth left from Easter.
Tulips. My tulips actually got to bloom this year because the deer did not eat them.
Tulips and Hyacinth.
A Tulip that has not bloomed for at least 3 years.
Flowering Cherry
Flowering Cherry
These were small fragments of iris left in yard after giving away a ton of them last year. I did not think they would seriously grow but they have and the are flowering.
I new rose bush Blue girl. I felt I had to rescue it. It was one of those rose bushes you see dipped in wax with the roots cut way back and packed in a plastic bag with sawdust.
My first peony to open this year.
Beauty of Moscow Lilac
Jose re blooming lilac
creeping phlox
lilac
dogwood.
Back yard pond
Fish
Tulips that were not eaten by the deer.
My Japanese maple died back except for the top branch.
The first Black swallowtail to visit my yard this year.
Lily of the Valley starting to open.
I love this Primrose.
Lilac
Daffodil.
Persimmon tree
dogwood
tulips and hyacinths
Tulip
Phlox
Flowering Cherry.
lilac
Dames Rocket
Columbine.
Iris
Carolina Sweet Shrub
Japanese Maple with dead branches removed.
Forget me not
Snow in Summer
Coral Bells.
Miniature dwarf bearded iris Beetlejuice.
MDB Iris
MDB Iris
dogwood.
I finally started cutting down the churches dead trees.
I am also removing all of the barberry bushes. I hate these with a passion.
Hasta La Vista baby.
My aftermath
Peony.
Another on to bite the dust.
I want the entire side of my house planted with lilacs of different sizes and colors.
Re blooming Lilac
Peony
Iris
Finally the house is starting to look good. Home Depot never did finish The job with the siding around the bay window area. Never hire Home Depot All of the negative reviews are true .
Will be replacing the rest of the windows in the next few months.
I can not believe this is the same house I bought in 2009.
There are a lot of windows in this place. I can not wait till they are all replaced. Should be done by June.
Lilac
Coral bell
I bought seeds from Amazon for yellow violets. They were all purple except for one single yellow flower.
I moved my orchids outside for the summer.
Lupine started from seed.
