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[AnneKipankitoo]

To continue into Spring 2022.

Unfortunately, I am not sure how many pictures I will be able to supply this year . Some builders are in building an extension for me .
I might have to live off all your lovely photos. Keep them coming!💐

I love spring - lots of fresh greens and purples in my garden at the moment.

Yes I have one in a large pot and it comes back every year to put on a beautiful display!

These pictures all look lovely and the garden earlier on simply glorious (and very envious)

The talk of chocolate cherries has made me reach for a box of the M&S ones - Aldi version are good too

@WobblyLondoner Your greens and purple look like spring has sprung in London town....what are the little purple flowers called, please? My mum's garden is covered in them.

They are violets @Sweetpea1532. They are so invasive that they'd carpet the entire garden and kill off pretty much everything else if I wasn't careful. Tough wirey little root systems - once they are established they're hard to remove. Spent an hour or so yesterday weeding out little ones that have just germinated. BUT they are very pretty in flower so I'm not as ruthless as I could be!

@WobblyLondoner They are exactly what have taken over my mum's front and back gardens! They ARE very invasive like you've said...they've spread all over the entire neighbourhood. Between the violets, moles, and now gophers my mum has given up on ever having a green golf course type lawn ever again

@Sweetpea1532 oh gosh, I can totally understand how that could happen. They have clever little seed pods that snap open and fling out the seeds so they scatter widely.

Note to self to try this year to deadhead/root them out before that happens (deadheading violets, now that's a horrible thought!).

@WobblyLondoner Yes, that is sad...like having to cull fruit from trees so you'll end up with larger fruit...I just can't make myself do it though...I feel bad for the ones that are supposed to come off..now I leave them and hope for the best. I haven't been disappointed yet...one year I had 500 peaches on a tree...yes, they were about 2 bites big, but peaches nonetheless

I like the violets but I can see how they'd need to come out if you've worked really hard to have a nice green patch of grass only to have the violets creep in...in mum's case, something else is creeping in! I've never in forty years seen a hole this big in the grass...it's the size of a tennis ball. If I didn't know better, I'd think it was a squirrel..but squirrels here aren't supposed to dig holes like my west coast squirrels...hmmmm, it better not be squirrels

Someone told us there was a ginkgo biloba tree growing on my sister'slake property. Sister had no idea so we scouted around looking for a tree with odd fan-like leaves...finally found it...all these years she'd thought it was a maple because it turned a brilliant yellow gold in Fall. I've attached a photo of the leaves..pretty interesting..they do look like little fans from Japanese art.

Such a lovely shape , @Sweetpea1532

@AnneKipankitoo When I read up on the tree google said the tree is from China....We have no idea how or why it was planted in Southern US.
Speaking of which, my mum's azaleas are still in bloom (starting at the end of Feb) which is odd because that means different bushes bloomed at different times this Spring when they usually all bloom in about a 2 week period. Also, another odd thing to me is that the sub 0 ° C temperatures at Christmas time didn't kill them like in years past.

A few more...the freeze did seem to affect the leaves though.
And these violas around the post box have been going stronge since 1 March when I planted them on my last visit.

Gorgeous

Your Mum's garden is certainly blooming Sweetpea so lovely to see from a wet, windy UK viewpoint

I love seeing pictures of what is going on in everyone's gardens! Here is one from mine today, some stunning primulas next to pulmonaria and primroses... wish i had bought a few more of those primulas, I love them and they seem to like my damp clay soil.

Very beautiful @Imicola
Thank you@AnneKipankitoo @applecatchers36 that was the only day of sunshine since I've gotten here and there was a tornado last Thursday 😲

Breakfast on the terrace, on holiday

i had a dream about tornadoes last night and trying to video it

@AnneKipankitoo breakfast on the terrace sounds so relaxing. Are there any flowers blooming around your accommodation? I'm imagining bright bougainvillea and bird of paradise.
What a terrible dream about the tornado!
I have a bearded iris to show today. They are one of my favourite bulbs as my DF had them in our garden when I was a child. I was always so surprised when they popped up out of the ground and then bloomed since there'd been nothing in that spot for most of the year. He only planted lavender because it was his very favourite colour as when he saw my mother for the first time she had a lavender ribbon in her hair. Love at first sight...they were married less than a month later!💘💕🤵🏻👰🏼💕💘⛪️ and were married for 65 years when he passed away. RIP, my dear Dad.

Wow ! Amazing story @Sweetpea1532

Thanks@AnneKipankitoo
Hope your holiday is going well

Hillwalking yesterday. 1000 m descent. Knees seized up last night. Ice packs etc I can move this morning but last night the pain was 😭

I was here

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I am so sorry you were in so much pain 😢 That was more like mountain walking in my book!
I love the gardens around your accommodation...geraniums are so colorful. Thanks for the photos