Here it is, the first flower pr0n since I broke my ankle!

I missed a lot of flowers: peonies, bearded irises, dutch irises, and a lot of my day lilies, though most of them still seem to have buds.

(as always, click through to see the expanded set on Flickr)

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Gerbera Daisy
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Lily of the Valley
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Since it was raining Monday, we went to the Krohn Conservatory. Which was fine with me, because conservatories have plants, and plants in the spring are flowering.

Needless to say, I went nuts.

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My day lilies are almost all blooming now. Last year I moved one cultivar to the front of the house, and when I picked up three new varieties at the WVU Greenhouse this year, I took the opportunity to move some other flowers out so most of the day lilies could be in the front bed.

There are also several species of Asiatic lilies blooming, but as I’ve mentioned before, I don’t like them, and really don’t like their smell, so I’m not too excited about trying to get close to photograph them. I may move them next year, because their scent is overwhelming.

Jasmine. This is a potted plant I put on the deck every summer, and every winter I wonder if it’s going to survive the basement and the cats.
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Spiderwort. I’m thinking I should move this to the top of the hill and perhaps put one of the azaleas down the hill in its spot.
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It’s Morgantown, so it’s raining.

Did a bit of gardening yesterday–went to the WVU Greenhouse plant sale and then took a trip to Lowes. Filled in the herb garden. The rosemary didn’t survive the winter (unsurprisingly, considering how cold it got this winter), and although some of the parsley came back (WTF?) I got more parsley, three tomato plants and two basil plants.

I also got some pansies to put in the boxes on the front deck.

At Lowes we got a dogwood to replace the broom in the back of the house that died, and bought a small broom to put at the front of the house, in the hopes it will do better than the one on the back of the house did.

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Despite the forecast we had sun Saturday. I didn’t see a lot of it, but I did get out in the (squelchy wet) yard and check on my plants and take some pictures.

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It was 70 yesterday, so we raked the flower beds and now I can see the earliest bulbs starting to come up.

Additionally, Michael got me a macro lense for my digital camera for Christmas (that just came a few weeks ago), so I was able to really try out the lens for the first time yesterday.

What did I think? I think I’m starting to want an SLR. I really liked the pictures I got, but focusing wasn’t always the easiest thing to do.

(If you click through on any of the pictures, there are a couple additional pictures in my Flick account.)

Here’s the front bed after being raked. (For a reminder, here’s how the bed looked last July.) Michael wanted to make sure I got a picture of him working.

The first flower of spring: the pussy willows are blooming. I cut a bunch of stems and they’re now sitting in a vase by Grandmom’s chair in the living room.
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My aunt and uncle brought my grandmother some organic tulips from California (they were out visiting my cousin).

They are gorgeous flowers.

Here is some more flower pr0n from San Antonio. It was once again weird to be somewhere warm in October. When we left Morgantown (at 4 freaking AM) it was in the 40s. Temperatures in San Antonio were in the 80s and 90s.

To be honest, that’s way too warm for me, but it was nice to see so many flowers in bloom, and I did my best to take pictures of the ones I thought interesting–especially the ones that I never see in West Virginia.

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Here’s something to brighten your week.

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Fall is most definitely here.

Plants are dying back, and now the stems and flower heads of my plants will feed birds for awhile.

Brown is starting to take over the garden, although I still have a few plants with fall and winter color.

For weeks and weeks the echinacia was covered in bees and butterflies. Now it be covered in small birds.

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It’s really sunny out today. Really really sunny.

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