Flags & New Plants

By not getting back home until mid-April, we missed a lot of the spring flowers. To add some color to the garden, Lloyd brought out some of the flags. This corner has a Japanese quince that had two blossoms left when we got here. It and the mums will be green until the mums bloom.

I gave up on the puny dahlias that I'd planted along the front walkway and replaced them with lantanas. Lantanas are annuals here (zone 6), but I was desperate. They're small but will grow quickly and add color and fullness to the hardy mums.

The Russian Sage is beginning to bloom. The tall stalk on the right grew up faster than the rest and put out a lovely flower stalk way before the others began to bloom. Strange.