Reminder: This is what the house looked like when we bought it:

Spring 2007

Spring 2015

First Day of Spring 2015

Temperatures still lovely - upper 50's to mid-60's at night and mid-to-upper 40's at night. Overcast and rainy though. Here are some pictures I took around the garden today:

Boston Red Sox Ivy from Hirts

Azalea

White Lilac

Purple Lilac

Lilacs

"America"Climbing Rose

Italian Cypresses

Columnar Apple "Sentinel"

Blossoms on Sentinel

Kitchen Garden - pulled sage, rosemary, thyme

Mock Orange in pots from Snohomish County plant sale

Banana tree, hops

Italian Garden, north view

Iceberg rose, spurge, dogwood shrub

Sweet Pea, Miss Willmott

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Italian Garden, south view

Italian Garden

Sky Pencil, rosemary, mums

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More IG, north view

Front Bed, mock orange and Lamb's ears

Mock Orange and Lamb's ears

Italian Stone Pine

Front bed, hosta from Colleen Brown

Hosta #2

Front Bed, Otto Luyken Laurel, planted last fall

Mock Orange

Front Bed, Lily-of-the-Valleys planted this week

Front Bed from porch

Front yard from Porch

LATE WINTER PHOTOS

Days are like spring around here (50's and sunny) but the nights are still dipping down as far as the 20's. I've added some Euphorbia Spurge to the garden (against the wall), as well as several Candytuft, which looks similar to Alyssum but is perennial. I've been working on the big hole which will soon house the Arbequina olive tree. I had to pull one Santolina that didn't make it through the winter but the other two look really spectacular. I also added a new sweet bay to the wall side (the biggest of the three I have so far! It was clearance priced at Sunnyside for $8.00!) And I planted a second grape vine (Chardonnay)  against the former rose wall. Bulbs are coming up everywhere!