Reeder Garden Report

It has been a rainy week, which has prevented us from getting much done outside in the yard. We did get all of the sword fern fronds cut off, as the new fronds are getting ready to unfurl. We have piles of stuff waiting to go out in the two yard waste bins, but pick up is only every two weeks, so we have to stock pile.

This morning, Friday, the rain stopped. We enjoyed a view of The Mountain as we drove to breakfast. Then back at home, we headed out for a walk about 11:00. We got in our 3.75 miles under darkening skies. As soon as we got back home I grabbed my camera to take some garden photos of what's blooming. The rain was beginning to fall as I finished the rounds of the garden. 

It's now the middle of the afternoon. The rain is falling steadily. I have completed my physical therapy exercises, had lunch and read the newspaper, called my sister, read political editorials in line, and just now finished editing my garden photos. Here we go. 

 Spirea

 Tete-a-tete daffodils

 Ranunculus

 Camellia grown from a cutting from the farm in Oregon where I grew up

 Euphorbia

 Daffodils and violets

 and primroses. 

Brunnera 

 Native red flowering currant

 Hellebore

 pink flowering pulmonaria 

 A newer variety of forsythia that we transplanted last spring 

 Mouse plant - Arisarium proboscideum

Native ginger 

 Native Indian plum

 One of many kinds of epimedium

Leucojum (summer snowdrop) 

 Native trillium 

 Camellia - the leaves are coated with pollen from the evergreen trees and the trees with catkins. Aaaaa-choo!

 Magnolia stellata 

 Another variety of pulmonaria

 White camellia from a cutting from a neighbor, long ago

 A long forgotten variety of rhododendron 

 Spring blooming cyclamen are just about done

 Crocus

 White flowering pulmonaria 

 A fancy red trillium emerging from the deep

 Chionodoxa

 Viburnum burkwoodii

 Native Oregon Grape. It will be opening to yellow flowers soon, much earlier than usual. 

 From the house, as the rain falls, we are enjoying watching the leaf buds burst on the fern leaf full moon maple. 

And there you have it, the mid-March garden tour. Thanks for visiting.