Out and About in the Yard

Double Hollyhock 

My Herb Garden

White, white rose

My pretty blue hydrangeas

My new oak leaf hydrangea 

Back corner flower bed

Marina's rabbit foot fern on the barb wire wreath

My Hosta bed 

One of the two pots of marigolds     

With the cold, cold winter that we had this last year and all of the rain we are having now, some of the plants are trying their best to grow.  The " plant guy" on TV said that some of the hydrangeas probably won't bloom this year.  They just can't take 5 degree weather.  They didn't die.  They just will skip a year of blooming.  I think I have some like that.  I only have a couple that are blooming for me.  I lost a gardenia plant but not the one that I started from Gene and George's.  It struggled through winter and it's just now coming back.  It is just a little late blooming but I've been picking pretty flowers from it, every day.  Oh the smell!!  It is my most favorite smell in the world!!!!! I did lose my "confederate rose" that I started from Gene and George's.  I was so disappointed that I lost it.  I guess I'll just have to start another one, the next time we go to Cecil.  The weather man said  with all this rain we have been having, means that it won't be a hot, hot summer.  With all the water in the ground, it will keep the temps down.  I think it's going to be a great "up north summer" if it would just stop raining for awhile.