Gene and I visited Anne and Julien Van Hoorde in Belgium several years ago. Anne had a lovely garden. A plant that I greatly admired was a beautiful yellow jasmine vine. Sometime later I found a Carolina Yellow Jasmine vine. I planted it at the left corner of the house near the driveway. Today it is loaded with gorgeous yellow bell shaped flowers, It had put out a few blooms the last two years, but now it is simply covered with the beautiful little yellow bells!!!




Yesterday the old pink dogwood in the front yard looked like it was about to bloom. There had been a light wind during the night and this morning I looked out the kitchen window and beheld the tree in full bloom!




Gene's little 'Wolf River' apple tree has outdone itself . It is full of apple blossoms. Maybe we will get some apples this time. Lynn's tree produced several apples last year. Ours had two apples on it! I cooked Lynn's and they were very good.

Today I put out three humming bird feeders, two suet cakes, two thistle bags and two regular bird feeders,.
This winter we had so many blackbirds that I had to stop putting the feeders out. I sure hope they don't come back! The Goldfinch and the Humming Birds should be here soon. I've been seeing Cardinals and lots of Robins.

I planted TFI tomato seed, Onion seed, and Whitehalf runners (beans) and some Cladium. I also had some blue and pink Wood Hyacinths and some Grape Hyacinths all of which should have been planted a good while ago.

Amy Wright came and weeded the Iris and relocated some perienniels. She is a good gardener.

Liga came by after work for a short visit. We planned a lunch outing for Friday. She said she might try life guarding at 1st Cumberland this summer, where she and Valdis did their swim team training. Valdis worked at 1stCP last summer and was able to rescue three small children who were having serious trouble in the pool.

(Liga took the pictures on today's blog!)