Spring Blooms

New garden spot

Plus my new garden tiller

It looks like a good spot with good dirt but like any urban location you run into interesting stuff, In this case the left side of the garden had a lot of fill with chunks of concrete, bricks and rocks

Spring is here at last, January extended untill March All cold and snow. February just forgot to show up. March so far has teased us with a day of warm sun here and there followed by cold rainy weather and Sometimes snow. March has not been fun.
Finally 2 days above 60 in a row with today warm enough to take your shirt off.

Tootsie has been looking at every sunny day thinking this day he can go out but up until today it has been too cold finally he got an afternoon outside in the sun.

Here he is eating a little dirt and soaking up the rays.

Salsa!

First tomato of the season!!!!

It isn't quite ripe but let it set in the window a couple of days and it will be ready to eat. The chilis are a poblano and an anaheim. Chop them up with the tomato, onion, garlic and fresh cilantro and you have Pico de Gallo.

I pick my tomatoes a day or two early so I get ahead of the critters.

Catching up

Our irises were beautiful this year. This picture was take a bit late in the season and doesn't capture the beauty of not only the irises but my 2 rose bushes all lined up in a colorful row.

The feline strutting her stuff is Chloe

Free flowers

These Sweet Williams were rescued from an abandoned lot in the neighborhood. When I dug them up they were just a small bunch struggling to survive. I have found a number of flowers at old house places. The houses are often gone but the flowers remain still blooming along forgotten paths. These are usually very hardy flowers. Irises and Jonquils are the most frequent flowers I have bought home. They always seem hardier than those store bought varieties. The weak ones perish those left will survive under any condition. Often like the sweet williams , with a little love and attention you will have a beautiful flower.






My wife dug up a start of these spring wild flowers and planted them in her back yard shade garden. This spring we tore down the trellis that was providing the shade are in the process of moving the shade plants in it to the many shady locations in the backyard. These wild flowers have thrived well and have reseeded themselves for 20 years . We hope they will like their new locations and continue to thrive

A trip to Family Tree nursery