Very unusual colors, but very lovely! Thanks for sharing, Xaun! I can't wait to see your Amigo open its blooms!

I know what you mean about being tired! I work as a housekeeper for a hotel, and spring and summer are extremely busy for us, so I'm always tired. Cleaning rooms is more work than people think! By the time I get home, I'm too tired to work in the garden, but I try to do little bits at a time. The end of April I'm taking a week off, not to work on my on gardens, but to rework my mother's gardens, because she can't get around good anymore, and she lives 200 miles away, so I have to stay there for a while, and visit friends I don't see anymore. Anyway, your photos are lovely, and in the background of your second one I see a wisteria, pruned as a standard? It's gorgeous. Do you have a better picture of it? I have one in my yard, not as big as yours, but in the three years I've lived here (previous owners planted it) I've never seen it bloom. Every year I hope to see a bloom, but no go. I've heard some may never bloom. Karen

Ellie, TD is gorgeous color. Is that what they call rose or is it considered a lavender or polychrome? Still trying to learn all this. Yes, some of those I planted in April are later bloomers, however, they were also medium size fans and the week I planted them our temps dropped down to the 20s plus it was so windy that anything I tried to cover them with just blew off. I think they all got set back by the cold. This week they got lots of 80s weather and rain so it seems to be helping them. I see a little new growth even under all the leaves that yellowed. they all look like they shrunk in size though. On the otherside of the planting season, I just received 2 shipments yesterday that are both badly yellowed. I suspect they sat in a hot truck. Jean, yes, I love spring. I do the same thing. Grab my cup of coffee and head out to see what's new in the garden. It just makes my day go so much better to have that little "me" time. I found a whole bunch of iris scapes today too. I did not expect any this year as again, everything was moved last fall and suffered winter damage. Life is good.

I'm getting scapes on my 2009 seedlings this year too. Not all of them, but about half so far are showing scapes. I even have one on a 2010 seedling, that one is Bela Lugosi X Storm Chaser, and both of its parents are putting up scapes right now. On my older seedlings, some of them their parents are putting up scapes, on another cross the seedlings are scaping but not the parents. They bloom later. I'm all sorts of excited to see what they'll look like. It's like Christmas, in summer! Karen