Spring is early this year by a good month. I am having trouble finding this as creepy as I probably ought, because LOOK!

FRONT YARD

Overall view:


The magnolia is stunning.


The lawn reseeding has accomplished something? I guess? I hope this is grass or clover sprouting and not hellacious weeds.


Peonies coming back. Hopefully they will bloom this year. I don't THINK they're planted too deep - buds did form, they just shrivelled up and never opened. I suspect all the rain last summer may have provoked fungus of doom. Who knew peonies were so persnickety??


Behold the tulips! And irises! And my swank repurposing of old bricks from the backyard!


BACK YARD

Overall:


Compare to this time last year. See what I mean about spring arriving early this year? This photo is nowhere near as green. Also nowhere near as AWESOME. HAHAHAHAHAHAAA.


Primroses, as promised by the garden magazines, are lovely, and super-early bloomers. I think I have to track down some more of these.



The bloodroot is coming back, as is the sweet woodruff, but I see no ginger nor solomon's seal back here yet. Hmmmm.


I see three buds here. I'd dismiss it as a random freak of nature but it's not the only one. WTF?? Since when do tulips do this?


Look, it's the transplanted rose! I didn't kill it! Indeed it seems pretty happy in its new sunny spot. Just have to get something to prop it up - a nice obelisk type structure, maybe.

I ♥ my crocuses.



Here's a wider-angle shot for future comparison purposes. Naturalize, my pretties!! Ahahahahahaaa!



Aaaaaaaand look what I did today! The new garden bed begins to take shape! Now I just need topsoil. I meant to get Ritchie's to deliver it on Monday, but I forgot to call back on Thursday, so I may have missed the boat on that till next weekend.



As an added bonus this used up every last one of the remaining rocks from Montague, so now I can sweep up the throughway once and for all. Well, except for that pile of sand that I need to figure out what to do with.

Also this weekend I need to replant a bunch of my seeds, since some cat or other around here has been using them as a salad bar. GRRRR.