Rita, those tulips are so beautiful. I would love to see your yard in person! Everything looks so healthy. The pond is wonderful too! And the Columbine are a favorite of mine, I have seedlings popping up everywhere. Thanks for the picture tour.

Nancy VB

I love the tulips an the columbines! They are gorgeous colors.

Them Tulips just keep on going and going and dont even look faded yet.They are so pretty.The Columbines are very pretty, too.My favorite picture here is of the pond.I really love that one.Your Daylilies are really coming on now.Growing and pretty and green.

Jean

Lovely! The colors of the Gudoshnik tulips look very tropical. Thanks for sharing -
Kathy

The rain last night has really beaten up the last of the tulips and they no longer look as great. The Early tulips in front are starting to drop their flower pedals and the Beauty of Apeldoorn have dropped them all. The Darwin mix are still holding on and those Gudoshnik tulips pictured above look the best of all the large plantings of tulips.

But then the ones along the roses gardens are not bothered and neither are the ones in tower square. The doubles in the Columbine garden got bent over but the rest are fine. I am just loving having all these tulips. I want even more for next year!

Love the columbine!! Especially that cool looking blue. Love your pics!

Vickie

I do love your yard---makes me with I had a hill to plant
things on.

I have set the wheels in motion and ALL of my flower beds
(mostly DLs) are being cleaned up properly and new borders
put on and it is going to be lovely. When it is finished, I will post pics.

Kay/phal

Rita,
I was looking at your pictures again, and that round flowerbed is just perfect with those tulips.
kay

Thanks everyone. All the hills are why my garden works for me, that big hill and then terraces everywere. I can no long immagine having a flat garden as I am so used to this.

As for those Gudoshnik tulips in the front yard over at the base of the honeysuckle trellis, that was one of those things that worked out perfectly and just as I had imagined. I used to have daylilies there but moved them after bloom last summer as I wanted to do the spring bulbs there like I have this year.

I also love your tulip pictures, The pond looks good too!! You don't put fish in it, do you? I seem to recall that you have racoons in the neighborhood.
cindy

Cindy- I do havefish in my pond or I used to. For two years they did fine including overwintering. But this spring there were no fish, they all died over the winter. It was much colder here than normal and lots of snow that stayed on the ground for weeks. Very unusual for us.

So the pond was a gunky and stinky mess come spring. But its all fine now, the water is crystal clear after my cleaning. Mostly I pumped out most of the water, scooped out the gunk on the bottom and refilled. Then set up and ran the pump and filter which cleared up the rest.

I put some small feeder goldfish (ten) in there and 30 Rosey Red Minnows. I used to have Rosey Red Minnows in there and as a matter of fact they bred last spring so I had baby fish swimming around.

We do have lots and lots of racoons here. In fact they come around every night.