Bloomin'

Spring has SPRUNG!

 I was out watering the garden yesterday and was amazed by everything that is growing back there! 

Here's the grass looking pretty good (thanks weed & feed!).

Sissou tree is getting big.

Octopus Agave with its giant stalk!

And the hose that is perpetually stretched across the yard so I can water the garden daily.

Blooming hibiscus!

Each flower blooms for only one day. 

This is the most flowers I've ever seen on it!

Look very close and you'll see a couple of buds on my
gardenia bush.

There are at least 12 buds so far...

They smell so good when they bloom!

This bush was my mother's day present last year. :-)

Oranges on the orange tree!

I love this orange tree!

It blooms in February and smells so good.

Then we get to watch the oranges grow.

They will be ripe and ready to eat on Christmas.

Ears of corn are already growing!

(And it's not even July!)

A small "slicing cucumber" is growing.

I LOVE garden cucumbers!

Here's our first "burpless cucumber"!!

And here is our "bottle tree".

Every spring it starts to green up...
and then it loses half of its leaves.

This year, with some extra TLC from Mom,
it is looking really good.

But let's face it, everything grows better
 with extra TLC from Mom.

And that's the end of the tour of our Bloomin' backyard.