Blooming in the Garden Now

Hello everyone,

    I hope you are enjoying your weekend. I love taking some photos after a garden tour because the garden has been whipped into shape and I have a little more free time.

 As you can see everything is lush and green now but there is a little lag between the spring show of tulips,daffodils etc. and the perennials.The early peonies are starting to bloom and the lupins as well.

There are lots of alliums in bloom scattered throughout the garden.

The Guernsey Cream clematis is starting to bloom.

This is a new one putting on a little show.

The tree peonies are starting to open their buds.

Immortality Iris is blooming and it will bloom again later-a nice bonus!

I love the lupins and they grow wild here along the roadside.

The Guernsey Cream again.

The Primrose Lilac- it has  yellow buds when it first comes out and then changes to white.

Alliums

Beauty of Moscow-you can see we had a sunny day today.

This is the Sensation Lilac but the tree has one light pink bloom on it too-I have never seen this before.

I want to thank all of you who gave me advise on other ways of putting my photos on as they have become fuzzy doing the same way that has worked for years. I will get my son to see which way will work best for me-thanks again! For now, I am putting them on a little smaller to see if that is better.

Thank you for stopping by,

Carolyn

Spring Beauty

Good Morning,

    The birds are singing, the geese are swimming in the pond and it looks like we will have some sunshine after a badly needed rainy day yesterday- what more could I ask for!
   I still have a few more pictures featuring our lilacs-don't worry I will soon have moved on to the peonies! The early peonies are just starting to bloom here but soon there will be hundreds of peonies blooming as they are loaded with buds this year.

Our summer porch

We have enjoyed  relaxing on our screened porch with the scent of lilacs .

Pretty containers full of our lilacs from the garden

I am picking a bouquet of lilacs for you.

Don't you just love lilacs?

We have over 40 lilac bushes in our garden-all different colors and sizes.Did you know lilacs like a slightly alkaline soil and a sunny location to bloom well.

Tomorrow is a busy tour day so I better get our house and garden in order.

Can anyone tell me why my photos seem to go fuzzy in the last few days when I make them larger-I always email them over to my blog and didn't have this problem before.

Thank you for visiting me.

Take care,
Carolyn

Beautiful Lilacs

Hello everyone,

   I hope you are having a good week. We are getting the rain we really needed for the garden and the crops so I am very relieved.

  I did warn you that I had lots of lilac pictures so here are just a few more for you.

A corner in our bedroom.

Our bedroom mantel.

Thank you for all the nice comments lately and welcome to those of you who are new followers to my blog. We have been busy lately getting the garden ready for tours and of course our own enjoyment as well so I have not been good at leaving comments back, I hope you will forgive me!

Thank you for visiting,

Carolyn

Tea with Jessie

Hello everyone,

     The weather has turned so much cooler here and we are still waiting for some rain -maybe later today! I have a few tours this week so I am hoping for warm sunny weather the end of the week.

    Above is a photo of our six year old granddaughter Jessie taking a moment to smell the lilacs.

       

And of course we had to have tea!

Jessie enjoys her tea as much as I do!

She even knew we couldn't have tea without a hat and flowers.

After picking lilacs she had to check out the Bridal Wreath Spirea.

This is Sasha the newest member of Jessie's  family! Sasha is a pug-a-poo.

Whimsical Jessie.

Sasha

We had just finished tea when a couple of other little tea ladies stopped in for tea in the garden but that is another post.

I am joining Tea Time Tuesday once again at Rose Chintz Cottage.

Thank you for visiting ,

Carolyn

It's Lilac Time!

Hello Everyone,

     I hope you all had a lovely weekend and a happy Memorial Day to my American friends. With all the sunshine we have had our garden is a couple of weeks ahead of many years. Our french lilacs are all out in bloom now so I have been picking lots of bouquets.

This is the Sensation lilac-I love the white edges.

Lilacs in the terrace.

Lilacs in the sunroom.

Lilacs

Over the weekend I took hundreds of photos so you might be sick of seeing my lilacs before I am done sharing them!

Thank you for stopping in today,

Carolyn