It;s May, It;s May..................

It's May but we need some April showers.It has been a very long and damaging winter. Looking around my garden, things seem reluctant to come up. I keep looking for signs of life. I am wondering if they are really coming up this year. My Day Lillies are hardly showing, they are hiding. I feel like I should not plant until I can tell if things will come up.

It is supposed to rain tonight. Maybe for the next couple of days. I hope it does, maybe that will warm the ground and give everything incentive to make a show.
I do know a lot of damage has been done. I can see from my ivy that a lot is gone. I was at some of the garden centers today and have the overwhelming urge to buy plants. I must resist. I am planning on a new rose garden. I need to move the ones I have and dig up that area. I don't have enough sun for roses but other peoples roses do well with a little shade. SO I will try again.
The Forsythia seems to have run its course and is not doing well. There are a few areas that are OK and I must really try to move some. Meanwhile........enjoy some of the Spring flowers that have deigned to show up.







I have wildflowers in my garden as well. I don't remember how that came about, I got some Trillium years ago and with that came a few other things maybe. The Trillium has spread but wish it would spread more. I would love to get more but its now against the law. I just have to hope they continue to spread. I have some Dutch Mens Britches and some little blue flowers. I wish they would hurry up and spread. Funny how the stuff I no longer want to spread does so more every year no matter how much I pull.




I will be very happy if the grass would green up. The grass is a problem. Tristen plays out there, the dogs pee out there. Its hardly grass anymore. Still I will try to put down some seed and see how it goes. For now nothing looks nice. Maybe I should just spray paint it green and be done with it.

I have little pathways throughout the garden for the dogs to play on, to chase around. I work on them every year trying to make them more interesting. Still so much to do. I remember in a park in Dunstable, I was intrigued with some little hidden paths where you could be hidden from view. I am aiming for something like that but it takes so long for anything to grow, I need some fast growing shrubs that like shade. I need some alternatives to grass. Or grass that grows quickly and will hold up against kids and dogs.

I love rocks and this rock garden needs some work as does everything else.


Another area I am working on. It was all shrubs last year. I have cut back the shrubs as it was dead or dying and scraggly. So, now I have the bird feeders there and will use this area to access those. I will put some tubs of flowers in there for interest.

Its a new area and so I will have to think about what to do with it, the rose does well there, the only rose I have that has thrived. maybe I should plant another rose in there?

This makes a nice picture I think, one of my old ploughs.

Last picture for today.......at least my hosta's do not fail me

So as I sit here and hope for rain, I also hope for a good nights sleep. It's humid again tonight. It was 80degrees today. I can't work outside in that. Thats ok, I have a lot to do inside tomorrow.