This weeks weather has been very interesting. It was sunny and in the high 80s on Monday but today it is raining and in the 50s.

The plants have been responding to the warmth, sun and rain. Some of the current happenings in the garden include the following.

• The hostas in the back yard are breaking ground.


• All of the grasses are finally greening up including the ones that were just recently divided.


• The red and yellow tulips in the oval brick bed in the front yard are all blooming. From the street, the display is beautiful.


• The daylillies have doubled their size.


• The radishes and the lettuce mixture in the four pots have sprouted. They need to be thinned.


• The pansies that I grew from seed and planted in the wheelbarrow are doing better. Unfortunantly, not all of them survived.


• Two of the carpet roses are up. However, I had to dig the middle one out last weekend because it did not survive.


• Ken and I dug up the bulbs in the small bed in the back yard. I planted the four Marguerite Daisys around the butterfly house. I still have to dig up the perennials in the bed at the back of the house and transplant them.


• The Yukon Gold potatoes were planted last Sunday in the barrels.
• The coral bells are beginning to send up new leaves.