The spring flowers made a great show this year.  I could not have been more happy with all the color and beautiful flowers to show for all the work we have put in over the years. 

The crocus broke ground early, in a warming that we had in the late winter and were the first to  come up, almost before it was even warm enough for them to pop their little heads out of the ground. 

It was not at all long before more and more color showed, the daffy and hyacinth mix was so pretty, each trying to out-do the other.  I'm sure this was just a mistake in planning, not know quite where one flower was planted before adding new bulbs, but I am so happy with the result.

The first of the tulips to pop up were the yellow ones, bending from the cold and wind, reaching for the sun, bright as the day light. 

The rhondodendren never lasts long enough.  I am so jealous of the huge ones that I see by my sister's house, and altho she assures me that those are years old, I am still rather anxious for my little baby to bloom longer and grow taller

 The tulips that Sara and I planted in my bricks last year were all breast cancer tulips that Becca and I had picked up at Wal-Mart.  This one, fushia trimmed with white, stood out just beautiful at the far corner.  I can tell each year is going to be better than than the last

 The double petaled tulips have a rose like quality, I wish I had gotten pictures of more of them.  Dainty little things

 The circle around the tree is still almost all my dark purple.  I have a few left the Remko had brought when he came from Holland to visit us, and the splashes of color in the purple make the front just amazing. 
One day, when they were almost all spent, Ruby and I went out and cut all the purple tulips, and one last yellow one for a vase in the house.  She was so proud of herself because she got to cut flowers
                                            with Grandma. 

 The Irises that I bought two years ago did great this year.  I had missed them last year because I was in Oregon, but I was thrilled to see them this year.  I have to try to find my notes to see if I made note of their names. 






 And then finally my peony is blooming. It has more buds every year and the flowers are doing great. Finally it has gotten over being made at me for transplanting it from the back yard. It only took five years!