So many beautiful and delicious things

We had our first pick up from our CSA last night (Common Ground Farm) - yay! And in with the delicious veggies were two beautiful "florals."

Technically, this was labeled as an Edible Pea Bouquet - ALL of it is edible, but I think it's too pretty to eat:



This is not edible, but beautiful to look at. Rye Grass:



And in our garden, Great Grandma Eaton's roses are blooming! The sweetest roses on earth. My grandfather used to make rose petal wine with these, and my grandmother carried them in her wedding bouquet.



Close up, pretend you can smell them. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.



The Peppermint roses are doing well this year, too - lots of double blooms!



We are going to need some chicken wire soon to protect these babies from the birds!



And...it's a Christmas song, but oh so appropriate, "It's the most wonderful time of the yeeeeear!" Strawberry season!

Azaleas and Herbs

Our azaleas along the east side of the house are blooming, the ones out front are not. I hope we don't miss them completely! We are going to Italy for the next 2 1/2 weeks, and I'm hoping to see some wonderful spring gardents while we are there.

We have a lot of sunflowers growing...we'll thin these out and move the biggest ones to the spots where we really want them to grow.



They've even reseeded along the edge of the sidewalk in front of the azaleas!



This azalea didn't do so well this winter. After it's done blooming we'll cut it back.



This is one of our Hardy Mums from last fall. I finally stopped being lazy and actually put four of them in the ground!



I potted up the herbs: parsley, basil, thyme and cilantro.





This strawberry crawled out of the strawberry pot last summer...



See you in a couple of weeks!

Lots Going On

Voodoo bulb #2 bloomed the other day. It had started to crack, so we moved it outside before the stench got too powerful!



We have lots of little sunflowers growing where the seeds fell from last year's crop.



The first of the tulips opened mid last week (I am a belated blogger...) and I was so excited to see them! Then the heat hit, and some of them are kind of wilty now. I'll admit, I'm glad the weather is back to normal today!



These are new grape hyacinths I planted along the east side of the house. I like the blue and white together!



Put this in the "what the heck is this?!" category. These little red flowers, which almost look like tulip blooms were blooming over the weekend. They are on the stems of this little shrub that I have been trying to rip out for the five years we have lived here. I have never seen it bloom before! I wonder if it was the insane heat. I don't think I'm usually out working in the beds this early, so maybe it's always bloomed, but I've never seen it. Weird!





Our beloved strawberry patch. Sigh. I weeded and composted, and now I will patiently wait for June. Sigh.



Mrs. Pampalone's Primrose are blooming, and looking great.



And, we have tons of wonderful blooms on the Bleeding Heart I planted last year! I was worried they might be in too sunny of a spot, but I guess not. :-)

Okay, these are just weird.

Was picking strawberries tonight in our strawberry patch (best thing we ever planted, by the way!) and picked these:



*How* did this happen?! Freaky, right? There were also a few double berries. We ate those. I'm kind of afraid to eat these Chernobyl berries...