I love springtime. I think the older I get the more my favorite season it becomes. There’s so much potential!
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My irises are really doing awesome this year. So far, I just have the white ones, but tons of blooms and then this purple and white one. I should have some more colors but I think they are later season blooms.
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We expanded the flower beds around our house a bit more last fall and filled in with some annuals for this spring. But, we have a few things that surprised me. I was sure that I had killed this bleeding heart by moving it. But, it came back and bloomed this year which is sweet.
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And then the real surprise is this columbine that is growing up in the middle of the irises. I have zero recollection of buying this or planting it. There’s a friend who has given me a LOT of my plants and perhaps she gave it to me, but I don’t know how or why I would have planted it here. This is a great place for it I think, but I just am not sure how it got here.
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These are all a lot of blooms that I planted primarily to attract and provide nectar for hummingbirds and butterflies. So, I’m pretty excited to have several hummingbirds hanging around the yard pretty frequently.