Empty Canvas

There's been very little time for landscape gardening this year, and my canvas was still under construction, but now we are almost at the stage where I can start thinking about trees and shrubs and perennials again.

I hope to draw from my daughters' gardens, just as they drew from mine when they started theirs.

I also brought a few divisions of my favorites from my last garden and stuck them in a row in my vegetable garden.

I also plan on using some of the shrubs and trees that are growing wild throughout the property.

The fun will be planning.  But oh what a lot of work to put it all together!

Redbud, Apple Blossoms and Magnificent Lilacs

My Sunday walk through our property was a heady experience today.

I found several redbud trees that I didn't know I had.  Last spring a lot of buds got frost and there was no show.  But this year ...  

 The apple trees were in full bloom, and I loved walking below their blossom laden branches.

But my destination was beyond the ancient apple trees.  I wanted to visit my equally old lilac grove.
   

  I have really never seen such massive lilac trees in bloom before,

and to be standing among them inhaling their perfume, knowing that the Lord had planned this place for me, it was awesome.

Blossom time

They tell me that the fruit trees took quite a hit this year because of the early warm weather followed by heavy frost.  I think it may have killed some of my apple blossoms but not all.

I also had a couple of pear trees in full bloom,

and what I really hope is a Saskatoon tree in bloom.

Our land is blessed with a number of fruit trees but I know I can't expect much from them this year. 

Still, I am happy with each bud of promise that blossoms.