My “showiest” Tulip: Foxtrot.

Oh yes, it doesn’t get much closer than that!  I just wanted to fill the lens with pink.  This photo taking session was in between the rain showers and gale force winds, so I really needed some pretty colors.

Double late Angelique Tulip.

My rose garden didn’t disappoint me.  Even after all of the wind we’ve had this spring, my tulips have persevered!

Double late Angelique tulip with a gray sky backdrop!

I thought this next photo showed really well how windy it has been!

My lily flowered “Ballerina” tulips are dancing in the wind!

I have a lot of photos. I snap away, probably way too much!  The hardest job for me is sorting through photos and deleting ones that I just don’t need.  The neat thing though, is seeing how quickly the garden changes nearly over night!

The ditch wall garden.

I’ve extended the stone wall.  This garden is now about twice the size it was last  year.  I ran out of energy!  There are lots of roots, both ivy and grass, to be pulled.  No chemicals, just persistence.

Haha! Look what I found! My first picture of the buried ditch wall before I started uncovering it.  Here’s a link to my post about all of that work: https://mominthegarden.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/ivy-ivy-everywhere-finding-a-lovely-little-rock-ditch-wall-under-the-ivy/ 

Oh I am just so pleased with this garden I call the “ditch wall garden”. So far I have poppies, daisies, black-eyed Susans, tulips, daffodils, some lovely plants which were given to me and I have not yet identified (!), and I planted dahlias this season, so I hope they will grow.

Tangerine Tango Tulips. These are a very light yellow, with only hints of orange, and some with hints of pink. (faded daffodils in the background)

Tangerine Tango Tulip; hints of pink with yellow.

And on the other side of the daisies, I have a more orangy colored tulip. I think this is going to be a predominantly red/yellow/orange colored garden. We’ll see how that goes, as you can already see some light pink in the background of this next picture!

Freeman tulip.

Freeman tulip after the rain.

You know I love playing with natural light.  Our evenings, when the weather is good (!), are simply gorgeous.  I love the lighting.  Here are the same tulips in the evening time:

Freeman tulip in the evening sunset.

Another sunset photo I took of a cherry tree in its new location. (Thanks goes to my husband who moved it for me … as I picked the first location and then changed my mind!)

Cherry tree in new home near the ditch wall garden.

I have a few garden projects going on in the yard.  While I was digging through the soil in one of the newer beds, I came across an unusual worm.

New Zealand flatworm.

I turned to the Irish Garden gardeners forum. http://www.garden.ie/ These folks are super, and know just about everything!  Within a few minutes of posting my picture and asking for help, they had identified the worm.  The bad news is that it is invasive and will eat all of my good to have earthworms!  So I’ll be on the lookout for this guy … to get rid of him!

Ending with a pleasant photo.

I couldn’t end with a yucky photo of an invasive worm!  So here is my more pleasant photo to end the post.

I hope you’ve enjoyed the bit of sunshine … between the rain showers!
Dana