I Love Spring

So, fall has always been my favorite season.  Don't get me wrong, I can sit on the beach for hours, enjoy playing in the snow, and cherish the beauty of new buds popping up after a long frost.  There is just something about the Fall.  This year however, I may be changing my tune a little.  We have had an unseasonable warm spring so far(these recent normal temp. days are driving me crazy), and this first spring season in our house has been awesome.  On a daily basis I discover new plants and trees blooming in the yard. You can't help but smile. It is also still a boatload of work.  Jas already had poison ivy again a few weeks ago!

 The previous owners put a lot of love and time into the yard, and now it is our job to maintain it, and make it our own.  Already blooming this spring are hyacinths, daffodils, and a few tulips.  We have forsythia and azalea bushes, hypericum shrubs, aucuba, magnolia, dogwood, and cherry trees.  Slated to come in that we know of are a ton of rhododendren, hydrangea, a fig tree,  and butterfly and lilac bushes.  So pretty, and the reason spring may now be tied with fall as my favorite season:)

Yay!  You know its spring when Mr. Softee starts up again

 My goal this year is to keep the deer from eating the hosta.  Wish me luck!

Here is a five foot area by our garage.  Clearly its been years since these hosta were split.  I think there are  at least one hundred plants.  They are even growing through the cracks in the sidewalk!