Springing to life with blooms and water

Our Nectarine plant is in full bloom. I really trimmed it during the winter so I'm hopeful for some good fruit!

Behind it, you can see some of our five peach trees about to burst open. If we can get through the next couple of weeks without a cold snap. . . we should be setting fruit!

Our strawberries are really coming out and I've seen a couple of blossoms.

Our cane berries are also coming to life. I can't wait for more raspberries and blackberries.

Michael tested out his project to get water to the garden. Here is one of the spigots.

Here's the pipe in the trench going back to the greenhouse.

Here's where the water pipes meet on the other side of the greenhouse.

And then going up to the other end of the new part where we hope to build more beds. It will be so wonderful to have water close by and not have to drag the hose all over the yard!

I love spring!

Boy, I do love spring when nature comes alive!

Our pear trees suddenly popped open on Sunday.

Our tulip tree is the prettiest it has ever been. Going to church I've seen some that are 30' tall so I wonder how old they are. Ours is still a baby!

I had some lettuce that we wintered out in the garden and about three weeks ago it started coming to life and has grown enough that I was able to start harvesting some lettuce from plants we planted last and then it got too cool to produce.

Air layers in the greenhouse

We are creeping closer and closer to getting the greenhouse finished. We double layered the walls and ceiling and yesterday Michael installed the blower and tubes going to the various walls and ceiling.

That gives us a layer of air insulation to help keep things air tight. The south end is not double plastic as it will have some doors we can open up for air to be pulled through by the blowers we will put up on the top.

Spring is slowly coming. Here is our tulip tree just about ready bloom!

Rhodes and Roses in bloom

I know I said I wasn't going to make this a garden blog, but the flowers are just so beautiful. Here's a close up of the purple and red rhododendron's. We've had so much rain they have turned brown and not stayed pretty very long. I'm glad I have these pictures for screen savers!
We decided when we moved in to make a border on the property with bush roses. They ended up not being pretty for much of the year, but right now and for the next six weeks they will look like this!
Here's a picture of the whole row of roses. . .
I have to end with a stunning close up!

Spring Flowers Coming Out!

It's always fun to see flowers starting to bloom in my flower beds after they have been cleaned out.
I will never be the gardener my mother was and have flowers like she did but I guess that I am an emotional gardener. I planted this Clemantis remembering my mother had planted several of them beside our garage and patio. I am in awe at how pretty it is right now.

Another plant my mother loved was called a bleeding heart. Here is the one that I have. This is the third year I've kept it alive!

Azalea's blooms!

Our Azalea bush seems to bloom later than most in our area. It's been just buds for the longest time but I just went outside and . . . wow!
I just had to go and get the camera!