Only The Good Die Young

After winter, it's been a long wait to see what will grow new leaves, or what has been overtaken by the short freezes. It's been easy to go out and take pictures, but I haven't been uploading them consistently, so here's catching up from each dormant state to whatever it could muster up in spring.

Azaleas during Winter

Pomegranate Tree right after Winter

 

Azaleas and Pomegranate tree grown back

 That's one mini flower bed. Just some little flowers and two bushes. The dogs like to dig in there a lot. Over the winter we got 9 cubic yards of dirt and mulch dumped in the driveway that Sanjay and I wheelbarrowed to the backyard to our new big flower bed. We got it set up to look like this:

Back flower bed

Other angle

It's looks really empty because there aren't many plants in there and even the ones that are still alive have no leaves during the winter so it blends in with the dirt and fence. Here's what's in there:

Crepe Myrtles, basically sticks

This was in Januaryish, we had to cut them this small to fit all four in my car.

Now they have leaves at least

Hopefully soon they will start flowering.

I still have high hopes for some blueberries and blackberries, but all through winter I can't tell if they are dead. But then I went to Lowe's when they got their new shipment of blue and blackberries and it looked exactly the same as mine, just like this:

Now they look a little more like this:

The one on the right has started flowering and has a lot more green, the one on the left only has leaves in like two spots.

Blueberries before

Blueberries after

Those are the plants that I've gotten attached to because they've been here at least about a year. We've put in some stuff that I haven't gotten so attached to yet:

Some bottle brush. We had some right outside the office at my last job, and it was full of bees and butterflies for what felt like all year round.

The only stuff I've started from seed. Made a little bed for sunflowers.

The hardest part was that they're supposed to be 18" apart, so you have to choose the best ones and kill all the rest to thin them out.

Habanero pepper baby plant

Tomatoes, I got like three different varieties of tomatoes, but if they actually all live we will have to many because tomatoes aren't Nishadi's favorite.

Some little annuals