Rooms with a View

Daffodils are blooming and so are the trees. Our Bradford Pear is flowering along with our wheeping cherry. I love seeing the cherry tree outside the living room window and the Bradford Pear through our sliding glass door (in the dining room).

Just today three trees got delivered, an early birthday present from my husband and daughter, I"m a very lucky girl. One of them will add a view to a room! I finally have a Butterfly Magnolia, I've been dreaming about this tree for awhile. It was planted right outside the other living room window, where it will add another beautiful Spring view. I WILL, have to wait till next Spring as it's bloom time has passed. Do you have a room with a view?

Butterfly Magnolia Birthday Present # 1...with Garden Fairy in background :)

Japanese Maple Sango Kaku Birthday Present # 2

Harry Lauder Walking Stick, Birthday Present # 3

This is what's blooming right now at The Garden Fairy - enjoy!

Little Gem with Scilla

Hyacinth Isabelle - Love the green color mixed with the purple and it smells wonderful.

Hellebore

Boston Flower Show...Better Late than Never!

Okay so I procrastinated in downloading my pictures. It hasn't quite been a month since the flower show, but here are some of the exhibits that caught my eye. I did buy more peonies from Peony Envy who was at the show. I also bought a beautiful iron trellis made by a local artist, for my clematis. Can't wait to see it in the garden! Enjoy highlights below from the show.



Peony

Love this!

These are located down the bottom in the picture above - these will make it into my garden this year. What a beauty.

For my husband

My First Hellebore Bloom

Now that the trees in the backyard are finally getting larger and with the addition of a shed, we're finally getting/creating a little shade! I'm envisioning a part of the back bed being a woodland area with beautiful Hostas, Lily of the Valley, Brunnera and the Hellebore. It was love at first site with the Hellebore. Once I started to investigate this plant and found out that it's evergreen as well, it was a must for the garden.

So, last Fall, I bought my first two Hellebore's "Pink Parachutes" and the woman wished me good luck (it was very late in the season and our first snow fall had occurred). I thanked her and drove home on cloud nine because, I got these two large plants for a very good price - $8.50! Every Hellebore I've seen in a catalog has been at least $16 for a much smaller plant. So, it's now early March and I have my first Hellebore bloom and the addiction has begun - I need more. It will be the first thing I look for at the garden nursery this year. I hope you enjoy my first bloom.

Crocus Are Out!

My bulbs are bursting through the top layer of the earth in anticipation of Spring, and I'm so excited! As you recall, I spent the fall planting some ~300 bulbs and I'm hoping the show isn't a complete flop. I did pay attention to color and heights and bloom times...so I'm hoping my combinations work together - crossing my fingers. Time will tell I guess, but I'm getting the camera ready!

The crocus are out and it makes me smile every time I take the front door walkway. Seeing them drinking up the sun just makes me want to stop and slow down and take an extra look around the garden. Mother Nature's way of telling me to stop and smell the flowers. After a couple of hectic weeks at work, it does me good.

The pictures below were taken a couple of weeks ago. There are more purple crocus now, will take more pictures and upload. Enjoy my first signs of Sping!



Hyacinth



tulips

Some Favorites of 2011

Didn't take to many pictures of the garden last year, so this new coming year I vow to have that camera handy and with me in the garden. Below are some of my favorites, that I did take in 2011! Wishing all my gardening friends a Healthy, Happy and Peaceful New Year and of course a blooming garden!