Quick change from logs to Rocks in my Cottage Garden

When we moved here, there were two tiny raised flower beds enclosed by poles.  I didn't like them much, but my initial chore of turning the lawn into more garden consumed my time.

That was two years ago. 

Last week we arranged to trade our SUV in for a very small Kia, Rio, and I decided to get some rocks from a near by field while I still had the SUV.

  I removed the rotten wood from around the beds, and stacked the rocks without doing much damage to the creeping flocks and rock cress.




I love the results and it didn't cost me anything but my time and the Gas to get the rocks.

 

Tulip Time

I love them all: Tulips, sweet scented hyacinths

and drumstick primroses

First Bloom of the Hellebores Seedlings

I'm excited to see that the Hellebore that I planted two years ago as a tiny seedling has matured enough to flower.  It's not the same as the parent plant but I love it.  I just wish it wouldn't hide its face.  The only way I could take it's picture was to place the camera on the ground, but I'm delighted with this photo.

I expect that by next year there will be many more flowers all around the plant, and that later in the summer, even after the flowers fade, the leaves will create an impressive shiny green mound.

Other flowers that are showing now are grape hyacinths and daffodils,

 

bloodroot and 

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and perennial alyssum

Don't you just love spring!!!!