Springing a bit

Things are leafing out and some plants are blooming. Here are a few shots from around the place.

Bleeding hearts always do well along the front walk. 

This is one Tom recently transplanted to a space in the rocks.

Our little crabapple tree never looks very good, but it is about to bloom. 

The buds look like tiny roses about to pop open.

When my father died almost three years ago, a friend gave me a hydrangea in his memory. We have created a small wild-ish garden with the bush (not in the photos, just leafing out) as the anchor. I have been working to get grape hyacinths established and this year they are making a nice go of it.

The two pictures above are of some of Daddy's garden, where the creeping phlox is starting to bloom.

Tom and Helen planted sand cherries outside the dining room window three years ago. The leaves are beautiful and the little blossoms are delicate.

Violets hide among the day lilies ...