Spring

Last week it was spring. This week it's summer. Not fair? It's also Michigan. Clicking on photos will enlarge them. The flower petals of the magnolia look like, what, snow, ice, ticker tape, rice, regardless, very pretty. The first irises have been perfuming the whole garden. Lovely smell. It looks like the tree swallows have allowed one of their nest boxes to be taken over by a pair of bluebirds. I brought up three kinds of epidmediums, this yellow one performs best here. There are three kinds of violets - blue, mixed, and white. The white one came from Aretha's home. The daffodils (narcissus) are still flowering; Kria insists photo bombing. I like the contrast between the dark color of the leaves and the white flowers of the wild cherry tree. This is the first year the ajuga have filled in. I like how the chartreuse herb contrasts with the purple flower and dark leaves. The Jacob's ladder has multiplied. Frogs, Brunnera, striped lily of the valley, four kinds of ferns - oak, Christmas, felix-femina, and ostrich - maybe.