Happy Mother's Day

I hope everyone had a fine Mother’s Day! Babee, our cat, even remembered to get Sue a card! I usually have a hard time remembering all these holidays, I’m glad someone’s on top of it :-)

Since the last photo of the yard lots of flowers are coming on strong. Every time I look at the front yard I’m amazed at how it looks. I was hoping the front yard would pop with lots of color and it’s certainly starting out that way. I suspect a lot of it’s due to the 90˚ temperatures we experienced last week. That’s for those of you that were complaining of the cold weather you were experiencing earlier this year. (You know who you are) Now you will hear me talk of the constant heat we usually get all summer. We are never satisfied are we???

Some of these you have seen the last time. The catmint is literally buzzing from all the bees going from flower to flower.

Some of the new ones are the Rock Rose – Cistus.

And the Ice Plant – Delosperma Cooperi. These stay evergreen all year but just started flowering this past week.

In the back yard another bunch of Bearded Irises is blooming, pink, Sue's favorite color.

And it looks like I may have a large crop of blackberries this June if all these flowers bear fruit, and the heat goes away for a month or so.

Under consideration for my next big gardening project is a patch of blueberries. The soil here is very alkaline which is exactly the opposite of what blueberries need. One of my friends at work has a small patch of producing blueberry plants and has offered his expertise to help get me started. I have been wondering what I was going to put in one of the remaining blank spots in my back yard, I may have my answer…

Thank you for stopping by.

Mark