Spring's balm quickly fades
Summer blisters the garden
Sunflowers show some skin
Thick and radiant through Fall

#mastoprompt - blister

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the blistering sun
threatens the purple iris
clinging to the spring

#dailyhaikuprompt - plum
#mastoprompt - blister

ART
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Tulip 'Apricot beauty' in a border.
I planted twenty bulbs a couple of years ago. Only two have come up this year or, rather, not been eaten by our visitor, the muntjac.
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The Flowering currant is in full swing. The bees love it but are proving camera shy.
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Both Red Bud Trees this Old Fart added to the garden last season are ready to pop! #redbud #trees #floweringtrees #garden #gardener #gardening #pennsylvaniagarden #pennsylvaniagardens #spring #springtime #beauty #gardenbeauty #outdoors #yard #frontyard #backyard #outside

At this time of the year, Frilly, our Weeping prunus 'Frilly Frock', is the star of the show. He had a good trim in the autumn and now that he has burst into flower, looks fantastic. Yesterday morning he brightened up a grey day.
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Jobs for the weekend - 29/30 Mar

As well as catching up on a bunch of stuff from last weekend, i’ll be preparing tomato frames, mulching borders and planting summer flowering bulbs, building wildlife tunnels with the help of the neighbours and possibly feeding the lawns.

Summer Soulmates inspired by the hot weather that has engulfed Florida and all of the beautiful flowers popping up!

ART
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Comfrey in the stumpery. Sourced from a drift of self-sown comfrey elsewhere in the garden.
The bees love it but they were camera shy. I overheard them talking: “Oh. it’s him again with this thing that goes click. Looks like a giant eye. Very suspicious. Better wait and come back when he’s gone”, they said.

Elephants' ears are beginning to flower beautifully but the leaves, every last one, have been eaten. Bloody muntjac!
But then, I wanted a wildlife friendly garden, hence I am getting the wildlife, which is satisfying. Ah well …

Seed trays on the living room floor - this is only part of it.
Sowed annuals, biennials and perennials today. 320 seed tray cells in all. Seems a bit over the top as I only wanted to plug a few gaps in borders. Don't know how it happened.

waiting for springtime
winter is hard to swallow
summer comes too soon!

#dailyhaikuprompt - swallow

Golden Sunflowers PRINTS are ready! ORIGINAL has SOLD!

ART
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With spring in focus
And winter's hocus pocus
In the blink of an eye
In the garden I spy
Magic visions of crocus!

A Limerick seemed fitting today. :())

#dailyhaikuprompt crocus

ART
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Been busy all last week cutting down the borders. With the temperatures on the up, I reckoned that everybody is out now of their winter quarters in stems and seedheads.
The photograph is of the middle third of the #garden, viewed across. Behind the camera is the greenhouse, a little more space and a tall hedge.
Later in the year, this area is filled with tall, flowering #perennials, ornamental #grasses and #wildflowers - you cannot see from one side to the other. It is beautiful, undisciplined and overflowing with nature.
At this time of the year it is just flat. I am anxiously waiting to see what will come back.

After three years of cultivation, and one major transplanting, this Old Coot finally has Pussy Willows. #garden #gardener #gardening #pennsylvaniagarden #pennsylvaniagardens #pussywillow #pussywillows #spring #springbloom #springblooms #bloom #blooms #fuzzy #bush #bushes #trees

Finished this original painting today! I adore SPRING! Flowers are blooming everywhere and I am totally inspired. :)

Golden Sunflowers - An original signed painting by Sharon Cummings j 30x6x1.5

Doris Weiss Crocuses in the Old Geezer's Garden. #flowers #flower #crocus #crocuses #spring #purple #violet #plum #gardening #gardener #pennsylvaniagarden #pennsylvaniagardens

Jobs for the weekend - 15/16 March

Off to the garden centre for lots of seeds! Weeding, sowing courgettes and chives and preparing for 3 tonnes of top-soil!

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