We've had a few nice, warm days here in Virginia Beach, but today takes the cake! It's been rainy and miserable for over a week. Today the sun is shining, the temperature hovers around 70 and there's not a cloud in the sky.
Before moving to the Beach in 2000, I don't think I ever came across an Azalea. Now I associate their blooms with spring! This is the prettiest one in my yard. It's covered with blooms!
I'm not sure what this bush is. The flower looks and smells like a lilac,
but I don't see many lilacs down here. But I guess if it looks like a lilac
and smells like a lilac, maybe it IS a lilac!
I have let Parsley mostly take over my herb garden because the Black Swallowtail Butterfly (Virginia's State Insect!) larvae eat parsley. The first year I planted the garden, I got so upset when the caterpillars started eating the parsley down to the ground. But when the kids started finding their cocoons and we watched the butterflies hatch, I decided to let them eat it all! I need to find a mesh butterfly thingy so we don't have to use a huge bucket for the cocoons this year.
And this is the veg garden. I need to get some organic compost to fill it in, since my compost bin hasn't made much 'black gold' yet :(. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with that...although today when I turned it, there were a ton of worms in it....that's good, right!? Anyway, I will be planting tomatoes (hoping for some BIG yummy ones this year!) squash, zucchini, pumpkins, peas, string beans, and gourds. We'll see if the bugs win this year!
1 comment:
I love azaleas, and really miss them here on the west coast.
I grew up outside of DC, in Bethesda MD, where there were glorious huge old azaleas in front of many of the homes.
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