I normally love Creation, and am a big advocate of it. Today, however, I'm not feeling the love. Not toward these, anyway. These are myrtle. They're invasive, non-native, and horrible. It's all bushy and thick and it is literally taking hours and hours to get rid of it. (I started this today. Pictures later of the massacre.) This is a HUGE space that they are occupying. They have choked everything else that was once in there. It is over a foot tall and is like death underneath. But, more on the myrlte removal later...
This, though, is one of my very favorites - Lily of the Valley. It lasts for about 2 or 3 weeks in May and has these beautiful, delicate flowers that smell lovely. My mom had them in her gardens when she lived in Ohio, too, and I remember her working in them when I was very small, watching her and running around the back yard.
Part of the crazy tulip crop circle. This bed is under a tree (I'll have to ask Neil exactly which kind of tree it it, though.) It's a HUGE bed, and there's really nothing else to do with it, I guess. (I'm getting ideas, though...) The people before us, who I'm guessing landscaped most if not all of the yard (and no more recently than 15 years ago), planted tulips in a circle around the bed. In March it really looks like a crop circle in Holland, or something. There's other random stuff in the bed, too, but I'm not sure it was meant to be there...
I've never been a huge fan of roses, but I'm really kinda turning into one. These are now blooming and on a lattice that Neil put up last weekend. They're lovely - I'll post updated pictures soon. (We have three other rose plants that I didn't take pictures of yet.)
These lilacs were on their way out in this picture, but they still smelled good! We have a really big lilac bush (are they bushes?) between the properties of our yard and our neighbors' yard. I don't know whose it is, really, but both homes can enjoy it!
White azaleas are pretty, but they aren't really my first choice. I don't think they're native. These are around back, right near our sunroom.
Here is one of the two pink azaleas. This one is in the back of the house. The other crazy bush thing is also in the front yard, and I like neither of them. One thing at a time, though...
The ants on this blossom are a sure sign that it is a peony! I love peonies. These ones are all pink, I think. They're in back, across from the pink azaleas in the above picture.
Sycamore trees always look so wise to me. I love the many layers you can always see on them. This is on our side yard, and I haven't climbed it yet, but I intend to. (When Joel isn't looking so he doesn't decide to copy, though...)
I'm also not a huge fan of hostas, but, here they are. There are 2 or 3 hostas around the honey locust tree in the front yard. They're not my favorite, but they'll be fine. Maybe I'll learn to love them...There are lots of updates and new pictures, but I have one more "background" post before those go up. (They might even still be on the camera!)
