It is Still Springing Around Here

Pictures taken on Thursday

The lilac is starting to bloom but aren't fully open in this picture. It has been raining since Friday evening so I haven't gone out to see if they are fully open yet. Even so, they fill the air with their wonderful scent. I'll have to do some work on taking out some really old wood that is not healthy once it has gone by

The light lilac creeping phlox is in full swing and the white phlox isn't far behind

The azalea in the south garden (part closest to the mailbox)

Near that azalea would have been a great place for the new creeping phlox I got Friday. Alas, there is no room so I placed basically to the left of the tree trunk in that bed.

I got these Friday for placing in planters. For some reason I was thinking they were both Lantana, but upon looking at the tags, one is a verbena - but they are related, so I was close.

I got these from Stonefalls Garden Center, which normally raises its own flowers/plants. But she said she special ordered the Vepita Amethyst Kiss and got them as starters. I can't even find a website that has general info on it. If it ever quits raining/drizzling, I'll get both of them potted up.

 

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Your dad chuckled when I complained that I could not smell the lilac blossoms from here. Lovely, lovely flowers. Lantanas are always in bright colors as far as I recall. Nice! Having said that, I note that your really bright new plants are verbenas.

Remember when you, Dudette, and I went to Galveston TX? (Your dad decided that he needed to work that week, but I was able to take the week off of work.) The idea of going down that way was planted in my head by one of the guys at work who said that he went down, annually, for the blooming of the azaleas.