Apr 17, 2011

Spring in the garden.

This was an absolutely beautiful weekend!

I fired up each zone of our sprinklers to find that 3 of them have leaks – likely a cracked or broken pipe from the freezes last winter.  So, we have some manual sprinkler schlepping in our future this spring and summer.  I don’t think we’ll get around to having the sprinker system repaired until we figure out what we plan on doing to redesign and relandscape our back patio area.

But with the hand watering the flower bed looks great.  I planted a bunch of perennials 2 years ago,  and nearly everything is coming back.  I did lose 4 of my Penta plants.

This is a shot of the velvety flowers of the  Mealycup sage, and in the background you can see the bright red flowers on the Salvia bush.

So pretty.