Started to weed yesterday. Doing one little area at a time each day, hopefully I will beat the weeds!

While I was gone, DS2 and DDIL burned my burn pile and put new sand out in front in the brick walkway, picked some flowers for my bedroom! They are doing it for mother's day, that is what I requested was yard work help for mother's day, and they wanted to surprise me, believe me they did!

I have one daffodil half opened, and another almost ready, and several tulips just taking their time to get ready to bloom!

Raked lawn and raked leaves off flower beds, turned compost with a fork, did a wee bit of pruning.

So good to see the rhubarb growing more each day. We love to eat it.

My iris are starting to open. My little bit of prenennial garden.

Ladies, your spring gardens sound lovely!

Spring is definitely the best gardening season for me. Right now, I have roses, jasmins, hibiscus, oleander, and geraniums in bloom. Plus gazania, lantana, plumbago, African daisies, dusty miller, California poppies, etc. There are flowers on the pomegranate tree, too, and the feijoa (pineapple guava) and cherry guava trees. And the bottle brush tree is also in bloom. Fruits are lemons, oranges, and loquats.

I put water to the front on Sunday and to the back on Monday. It's going to be 90F today, so, summer is just around the corner!

I've composted around the roses, but need to do the remainder around the azaleas. Everything got feed, then Mother Nature did the watering. Weeds are in control, thanks to weeding a section at a time. On my daily laps around the yard, I stop and pull a weed or make note of what to return to do the next time. Nice way to exercise and have something to immediately show for it.

Today's planned garden activity: deadhead the roses. With 90 rose bushes, I am estimating it'll take me an hour.

My half opened daffodil really surprised me when it turned out to have 3 heads on one stalk! I guess it might be a jonquil, not a daffodil. I have others almost opened and am on the lookout for more multiple heads.

There are two deep pink tulips almost open and others showing hints of colour.

The amalanchiers are almost done and I enjoy their blossom so much as it comes before the leaves and makes quite a statement for a wild tree. I've tagged them now so they don't get cut down accidentally when not in bloom. The wild pin cherries will bloom next, so I won't feel too sad now that the amalanchier blossoms are dropping.

Bushlady, I read that amelanchier berries are edible and can be made into jam, etc. Do you make jam with the fruit from your trees?

Gave my gardener some money to buy bags of mulch for me - it's time to start weeding and mulching.

Proud to say I have been pulling a few weeds each time I go outside with Gypsy. Yea ME!

Bless, those berries, also known as service berries or saskatoon berries are certainly edible but mine don't seem overly good, the few within reach, although the wildlife probably benefit. I once saw a lovely huge tree west of here and it was laden with excellent fleshy berries that you could just pick and eat right away!

I have more jonquils in bloom and more tulips opening out and surprising me with different colours, including a pretty yellow with red stripes inside and red with yellow inside!