Around The Yard | Early Spring

Beautiful - thanks for sharing Ali. Today greeted me with a rainbow going in to work in the city in the morning and another rainbow leading me home in the afternoon. We are in opposite seasons here in Australia and also very thankful for our planet.

Your Liriope are gorgeous! Ours haven't come up yet but our Lilac is in full bloom and smells so wonderful. We're planning on spending next week working out in the flower beds in front of the house. All 50+ feet of them!

I love the excitement of finding out what is in your garden and planning what you can do. Your veg bed area made me immediately think of my old potager with a low yew hedge, lavendar borders and a cross path in the middle. Such fun. The blue flowers are grape hyacinths and you can get them in lavendar, pink and white. If you cut them in big bunchs and bring them into the house they give off a wonderful fragrance.

I'm so excited for you enjoying this first spring and nature's beauty in your own yard. I love those white trees you have on your street. My lilac trees are just starting to bud but that's about all we have for now. How fun for you to come home to all this new color and growth in your yard. I wish spring would hurry up to my area. Thanks so much for sharing this Ali.

I too get a new garden space to work with this year. I've been studying the light all winter and now into spring to see where full sun and shade plants need to go. I can't wait to get digging but it will have to wait a few more weeks until our "spring" arrives.

It must be awsome to see all that green, and Spring happening! I'm still waiting... we still have snow!!! Can't wait for green!

I've been away from my puter for a while, what a feast to go through your blog again! Spring is beautiful there by you.

How amazing and so wonderful to see. I love your new yard - you will loved raised gardens, we put ours in last year and it is so much easier to maintain.
We got 20cm of snow on the weekend so we are not enjoying any buds as of yet - oh May please arrive soon.

You got awesome shrubs and trees in your garden and beautiful flowers! Isn't it lovely to see that they are there to greet you - the new owners of the house. Have fun discovering more lovely plants in your garden. Spring has just started!

Thanks for the beautiful pictures. It's still a little early for spring plants here in Michigan but it won't be long. Seeing the pictures of your yard are just what I needed today.

Ali,
I love the pictures of your yard. This is my favorite time of year to take pictures outdoors -- things change so much from day to day. We have lived in our house 10+ years, and I STILL love to see what's going to pop up each year! This year, birds made a nest in the wreath on our front porch -- and there is already an egg there. One more thing to WATCH this spring! I love the blue muscari in your yard. I just bought a little pot of them at the grocery store the other day, and am watching & taking pictures of their progress daily. Someday soon, they'll get planted in the garden, and I'll get to watch them for years to come!

Happy Spring! =) ~Sally

Wow Ali, so excited for you as you enjoy the reveal of your 'new to you' yard and gardens this spring. Should be lots of fun making this space your own by creating new vegetable gardens and choosing new plants. One of my favorite shade perennials is sweet woodruff. It is an awesome evergreen ground cover with delicate white flowers in late spring. I've got it planted among ferns and hostas in several beds and it is wonderful. It would fill in that strip next to your house nicely.

that wisteria is going to be gorgeous on the new pergola! this time of year is always so much fun in the yard...the planning and anticipation. :)

Ali, It looks like your White flowered tree is a Bradford Pear like we have here in Va. Beach. I love every Spring when they bloom and I am sad to see the first big rain take all the white blooms down. Our trees here are now all green and fresh looking. I love the signs of regrowth and renewal that Spring brings. But definitely not the allergies. Thanks for sharing the wonderful pictures.

WOW...you've got a lot of great plants there and all that room for your veggies! That's so exciting...I hope you have fun with it. I don't have room for a vegetable garden, so I am sticking to an herb garden and four tomato plants. Are you planning on planting any herbs? Love cooking with fresh herbs in the summer...

We have many of the same plants growing in our yard, but due to a higher elevation mine are not yet as developed. But, I have 2 large lilac trees that are blooming and a hydrangea tree that I'm excited to see bloom again this year!

Kudos to the previous owners. . .you inherited some wonderful landscaping. What fun experiencing spring start to finish this year!

I love spring when you can finally see the buds just coming out.

Wow. I love plants but have never been a yard person. I can feel your excitement here, and it inspires me to take a walk around my yard as well. It's been so neglected, it's pretty sad. It's hard to know where to start.

Looks wet Ali! Much like England :)