The Month of May

 

I love the gardens at my American Homestead,

Avalon.  And... those gardens take a lot of work

each year.  This year we were away the first 18

days of May ~ prime planting time!

 

 

I knew I would miss the blooming of the

lilac, one of my favorites.  My sister knew

I would be disappointed so she emailed

me a photo of it in bloom while I was in

the Netherlands.

 

 

She also sent me a photo of the stunning

bloom of this crabapple.  I bought this tree

years ago at the end of the gardening season.

I felt sorry for this poor neglected tree, it was

sort of like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.

I took it home and planted it in the front garden

and it stayed there for a few years and pretty

much remained a twig.  I wasn't sure if it was

going to live so I transplanted it to the back

garden and it has been there for many years,

growing very slowly.  Over the past two years

it has really started to thrive, there are many

branches and it is filled with leaves.  And this

year, it bloomed!  It bloomed magnificently.

My sister called me in the Netherlands to let

me know since she knew I'd be so excited.

I was!

 

 

Today, these beautiful roses bloomed.

They are a delicious deep pink and smell

the way roses are supposed to smell, just

like the old roses I remember as a child.

 

So, if anyone is looking for me for the next

week, I'll be in the garden.  I just wish Mother

Nature would co-operate, everytime I put on

my gardening clothes, the raindrops start...