I Have Seen Signs of Spring!

Having the day off today, not for Good Friday, but I have to work on Saturday, I felt ambitious and cleaned up some of the leaves that we left on the flower beds over Winter.  Low and behold, some of the plants are waking up!  Our temps have been relatively moderate so far this Spring, hanging around in the 40's.  (We did have a 70 degree day this week.  Yippee!)  Here are a few of the early risers:

Now granted, these hyacinth and daffodils are kind of in their own protected micro-climate, by the front porch, sidewalk and driveway.  Still, the daffodils are usually in bloom by Easter but not sure they are going to make it this year.  (Editor's note:  I didn't get the blog finished on Friday and these particular daffodils bloomed on Easter Sunday)

The roses are slowly coming to life also.  All the late snowfalls we had were a little tougher on the roses than first thought.  I might need to be picking out a couple more new rosebushes.  The new one we did order should be shipping in the next couple of weeks,  Yeah!

On the East side of the house (aka the Pink Garden)  there is much more going on.  The sedum is going gangbusters.

If I were to take a picture of the whole bed, you could see that there are bunches of these little plants coming up.  I don't mind if it fills in some, but I'm going to have to make sure it doesn't take over the whole bed.  The weigela  hasn't started to bud out yet and I probably killed my clematis.  It was looking pretty scraggly so I kind of cut it a little too far back, something that should have been done in the Fall. We'll see.

The hydrangea is just starting to bud out (really hard to see):

The delphinium are coming up, at least two of the three:

All the bleeding hearts (both pink and white) are accounted for:

Okay, I realize that all these pictures look like a bunch of brown dirt.  But, to us Garden Nerds, this is the best time of year.  Our environment is coming back to life!  Let the Spring Begin!