Our April Showers Start the Parade of Colors
The adage has always been April Showers bring on May Flowers. While it may have been true once, with the environmental changes across the globe, the consistency is seldom there.
I look at the onset of rain in April as the tears of joy flowing for the end of the drab and cold and the onset of the colors that bring smiles and a far better sense of euphoria. For the showers that fall in April, start the parade of colors that carry us through the summer.
In our yard, it starts with crocuses, and from there we see the hyacinths and then the daffodils.
We have the daffodils planted in various areas of the front yard, so we enjoy the colors for better than 3 weeks.
Once the weather warms up a bit, then the area I call the rock garden awakens.
While still showing off the daffodils, which tend to get larger and more copious each year, the flocs start it's colors.
Shades of pink adorn the ground with a back drop of the brightly pink bush, for which I can never find the name..
These will las through the end of May and then comes my plantings of begonias and impatiens which will bloom all summer long. Once the cold sets in then the annuals are pulled, and I plant mums which last until the first frost.
Towards the end of May the flowers along the driveway start to appear. There are day lilies as well as iris that will shine for a few days to be replaced by another.
On the opposite side of the driveway are the astilbes and their gently pink and white tops. They offer color for a few days sometimes up to a week, and then depart to return the following spring, thicker.
Along one side of the yard are the azaleas with their blossoms, which appear as a wall of color.
Not to be outdone there are azaleas along the front garden of the house as well.
There are also laurel as well as the azaleas along the back yard of the property.
As sentinels, we have the dwarf Japanese Maples that stand on either side of the front stoop and in the fall, their colors are a bright orange and a deeper red.
There is a third maple that is younger and is stretching to the right of the red one.
Of course, the grass starts to green and with a few utterances stays verdant through the end of the summer into fall when the colors of the leaves provide a temporary color blanket.
Ther are the flowering trees that offer an entrance to the spring season as well.
We are fortunate that our landscape is matured and my job is to try and keep it as such so that the future owners, whenever they are offered the house can appreciate all that we have enjoyed as well.
Alos at several spots in the yard are the rhodendrums with their big blooms.
This post is a contribution to the May Challenge, to Flaunt the Blooms brought to life by the early Spring showers.
Our April Showers Start the Parade of Colors
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