I have been outside doing more spring pruning and clean up. The lawn was mowed for the first time this week. The grass looks better than it has in years. The trees are in leaf, even the ash trees, which are just starting.
The butterfly bushes all look dead, of about six that I have planted over the last few years, none have survived a winter. The milkweed plants don’t look like they’re coming back. Three small crepe myrtles are either sleeping late or dead.
New blooms: honeysuckle bush, ajuga, nannyberry viburnum, Korean spice viburnum, Chinese snowball viburnum, wood hyacinth, azalea, burning bush, yellow and purple lamium, blueberry, deutzia, first rhododendron, dogwood, red-twig dogwood, Virginia blue bells, barberry, redbud, Kwanzan cherries, lilac, Carolina all-spice, pulmonaria, columbine, sweet woodruff, may apple, chestnut, white spirea, garlic-mustard.
It's been raining today, and everything looks greener.
Azaleas and viburnums in bloom.
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