04/18/05

The dicentra (bleeding heart) is just starting to flower, and has nice foliage.  Last year's swiss chard is not suffering too much "swiss cheese syndrome" from our slugs.

With a protective mulch of anti-slug and snail dessicant, the tulips I brought back from Cornwall have started to flower.

I divided the stiletto hostas on the right, hoping for better coverage this year.  Pasqueflowers and Lobelia will hopefully fill in some bare dirt around the hostas.

Close-up of a pasqueflower, with hosta sprouts behind.  The hostas double in size daily.

The winter flowering violets kind of got mucky and didn't have a good winter.  The yellow-flowered winter aconite has come and gone in late March.  Cyclamens hopefully will spread and improve by next year.  The wide-leaved grape hyacinths add some color at the moment.  Grasses and lily foliage renewing.  No sign yet of the cowslip seeds coming up.  Some kind of unidentified bulb seems to be coming through - what could it be???  And lastly, the pond is full of frog spawn and algae.

Most of the greenery belongs to the foxglove seedlings sown last year.  They should flower this year, but I won't have white ones until next year!  The orange thing is anti-cat odor pellets, which have recently been ignored by our neighborhood cat's regular fertilizing visits.

In the front garden, the daffodils have finished and have given way to the grape hyacinths - both traditional and a bi-color, wide-leaved variety.  Soon, they will give way to the bluebells.

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