It's a new gardening year in my central Ohio zone 6a garden and the star April blooms are the tulips. While planting 135 bulbs during some chilly days last fall I began second-guessing my purchases, but as usual it's all worth it come spring. This patch of 30 pink and purple tulips is making me especially happy.
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| Mystic Van Eijk (pink) and Negrita tulips |
It was also worth spraying it regularly with a stinky deterrent to keep the deer away so I actually got to enjoy them (a lesson I learned last year).
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| previously planted Columbus and unknown purple tulips |
Most of the daffodils are done, but there are still a few, including one of my favorites, Narcissus Cheerfulness.
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| Top row, from left: Daffodil Salome and Narcissus Cheerfulness |
And there's a few other blooms now, including grape hyacinths and especially exciting to me is wild geranium (geranium maculatum). The latter I planted last year and is blooming for the first time in my garden.
That's it for this month in my garden, but visit May Dreams Gardens to see what is blooming elsewhere.
