welcome

            Welcome, Melissa. I enjoyed your description of your weather
(pretty similar to mine in east central Illinois) and your approach to
perennial gardening. This is a fun group with lots of very knowledgeable
people to help with questions of all sorts and enthusiasms to share.
Speaking of which, this is a great spring here so far. We had a heat
wave early that finished up the first daffodils and the magnolias too
soon, but then it cooled off and so the dogwoods and crab apples and
tulips are lasting well. Meanwhile, there is something beautiful coming
into bloom just about every day.

            Right now, there are bluebells, yellow wood poppies,
epimedium, pulmonaria, hellebore, corydalis, rue anemone, dutchman's
breeches, bleeding heart, lamiastrum, sweet woodruff, azaleas, brunnera,
bergenia, and phlox divaricata in the shade beds. In the sunny raised
beds, there is aubrieta, alyssum, pulsatilla, dwarf bearded iris,
euphorbia myrsinites, pink arabis, stoloniferous phlox, and lathyrus
verna. As for bulbs, still many daffs (including the dwarf sundial),
snowflakes, blue anemones, yellow anemones, and tulips (species and
Darwins). Shrubs in bloom now include the lilacs (at long last!), the
viburnum carlesii and judii (so fragrant), the daphnes (fragrance out of
this world), the bush honeysuckle (not fragrant but nice color and
privacy screen), the double yellow kerria (nice in partial shade), the
fothergillia, and tons of buds on the queens of the garden ...the tree
peonies.  Not to mention (forbidden on this list?) the cheerful bits of
color from the annuals we just planted in the foam pots along the sunny
front walk and the hanging baskets (fuschia, purple angelonia,
calibrachoa, lantana, dianthus, snaps, etc.).



Happy Gardening!

Susan

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