Foliage

Along with all the lovely May blooms, there is some nice foliage as well.  I am joining Pam again, with her Foliage Follow-up.  I haven't made it to many GBBD posts yet.  I made myself do a little housework and some laundry, although the house is such a mess, you can't tell I did a thing inside.  I also went out in the cold and took some photos of foliage.  About 3:00, the sun came out, and it finally got into the upper 50s, warm enough to get some gardening done.  Since the tomatoes I planted a couple days ago were doing OK, I went ahead and planted most of the rest of them.  I came in for a microwave meal, and went back out until after 9:00 pm.  It was fun watching the moon get brighter and brighter through the trees.  I was feeling appreciative of all the trees in our neighborhood.  Even though we have no trees in our yard, there are still trees all around us.  We even get quite a lot of shade from some of them in the front yard, but not the house itself.

The hostas are doing fine.  The reason I have all the stuff in with them is to try to keep Heidi out of them. 

The closest variegated false sunflower is more variegated than the one next to it.

Larry saw these little spireas somewhere, and wanted them.  He does that once in awhile.  They sure are looking pretty this year.  That's a clematis on the trellis.

The arum foliage looks like it's ready to fade.  Soon, the odd looking flowers will appear, followed by stalks of what looks like berries, which will turn from green to red.

'Fireworks' goldenrod:

I'm tickled that several kinds of foxgloves have survived 5 or so winters, and bloom each year.  The foliage is nice looking, too.

The strappy leaves of the surprise lilies is fading, and will soon be gone, and later in the summer, the flower stalks will come up through the monarda, which is a petite pink blooming one.

I hope you are having some nice spring weather, and there is no more flooding this week.  Enjoy your outdoor time!