A Beautiful Time to be in New England
Oooooooooo-Aaaaaaahhhhh!
The foliage was spectacular this year in New England. These pics are from Columbus Day a few weeks back, the vibrant reds, yellows & oranges are all gone now, mostly browns….. All these pics were taken within a mile of the house.
Oh, King Leo changed color this week…..
Soon his needles will fall and he begins his hibernation until the spring.
How does your garden grow?
Spent some time in the yard documenting progress
Yesterday….
Today….
Just a few days later the Peonies are almost spent now….
King Leo now has needles and Oh, my he is getting TALL!
The baby White Pines we planted just after the last frost all have new growth!
This is my new “Corn Flower” – Centaurea Montana – Gold Bullion
The Mountain Laurels are blooming too <<sniffle, sniffle, ah-choo>> (great for allergies). See the big fuzzy bumble bee?
These False Indigo- Baptistia Australis attract Hummingbirds, but they are too fast to snap a picture of. By the time I get my camera they are long gone!
Lastly, this is where the Chipmunks live (well at least 2 of the dozen or so holes we can find in the yard). I think we have a whole Metropolis of the cute fuzzy striped critters living under the yard.
Baby Trees
I just realized that I never posted the pictures of the white pine saplings we planted from the Arbor Day Foundation. We planted them in two big clusters and surrounded them with black mulch. You can see the other cluster in the background.
Hopefully in time they will shelter us from the tragic view of the horrific driveway (road) that ripped between us and the neighbors, killing dozens and dozens of mature trees in the process. Hate those right-of-ways!
www.arborday.org
Grow little trees, GROW!
King Leo update:
The redwood King is budding feverishly but had not shown any needles yet.
All hail King Leonidas!
technical difficulties
This post should have been up last night, but I was having a disagreement with the blogging software. to be specific I could not get the pictures I uploaded to lay out all nice nice the way I set them in the Blog….. I managed finally to get them somewhat in the format I had imagined, so much for posts with multiple pics…..
Tuesday March 18, 2008 5:30pm. Well spring is finally trying to arrive here in New England. How do I know? Well not from the weather forecast (it is supposed to snow overnight), no, there are signs….
White Crocus peeking out of the leaves
Purple ones too! (looks like they need to be split this year)
Tulips are also starting to make an appearance
Daffodils should start blooming soon!
And even the Redwood Tree that we planted this past summer (affectionately known as King Leonidas, AKA King Leo, from the “300″ movie) has budded! If you look closely you can see his little buds. Yeah! He made it through the horrible winter we had <<<happy dance>>>.
