APRIL SHOWERS AND FLOWERS

 

My yard has exploded this spring with so many beautiful flowering trees, vines, and perennials all blooming at the same time. 

This jasmine just keeps getting prettier every year.  It is a vine that I dug up in a field in Louisiana and planted it under my deck.  It has a most wonderful aroma and is one of the first to bloom.

The redbud trees have been opening all over the city this month.  Mine is pretty and the only problem I have is that it wants to reproduce too much.  We have little redbuds popping up all over the yard.

Grape hyacinths have outdone themselves this year with their sweet little flowers showing themselves off everywhere.

These pretty little blue periwinkles are such a good ground cover for shady spots.

If you are from the south you know you can't have a yard without azaleas.  This one is the first of mine to bloom every year. 

White phlox

Pink phlox

Candytuft

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Ecclesiastes l:7

And neither is my garden!