THE FIRST LADY OF FLOWERS

HAPPY SPRING!  For my inaugural post, I am actually not going to feature any flowers from (my) Beth's Backyard.  All of the flowers shown in this post are from my mother's yard.  It's just next door, but I think it's more fitting this way.  Everything I've ever learned about growing anything was taught to me by her.  The woman has the world's greenest thumb and can grow anything under the sun.  You name it, she's grown it.  It must be the dirt. (INSIDE JOKE)

I spent the weekend nursing a "catch" in my neck.   Didn't get as many pics as I wanted to or at the right angle, but the few that I did turned out wonderful!

Everything is just about in full bloom and bursting with color.  Her peace and yellow roses have some of the biggest flowers I have ever seen!  The pink rose bush must have 50 blooms on it.

The flower below is part of the gladiola family.  Mom got a start of these from her sister in law, Nell, who lived on Cedar Creek Lake in north east Texas. They are so dainty.  I've never seen any like these before.  The fuchsias and hot pinks almost glow.  Maybe I'll call them "glowdiolas".

The snapdragons and pansies are just beautiful.  Mom puts them in her bed nearest my house.  Lucky me!

  

The peonies are just now popping out.  I dug these up two years ago from Grandma Taylor's back yard where mom had planted them years and years ago.  It was in the middle of September after our record breaking heat wave.  The ground was so hard!  I was only able to dig up a few sprigs.  Grandma offered me a little bitty hoe to dig them, but I was glad I brought my own pitch fork and shovel.  Peonies are my absolute favorites.  I think the bright blue delphinium behind it looks great.

On the west side of mom's back yard, she has a split rail fence.  It separates her "yard" from her vegetable  garden.  The picture below shows the end as you enter the garden.  The primroses have been coming up here every spring for years.  They are a nice contrast with the point-y yucca.

Mom has had this geranium for a few years.  It sits on her porch and I am drawn to it every time I go over to her house.  I have taken probably 30 pictures of it over the last month or so.  It changes colors throughout the day, depending on the saturation of the sun.  It's the prettiest one I've ever seen.

More to come later!  I still have to go through some pictures of hummingbirds and my new flower beds!