In the yard today

Blooming:

• Flowering crabapple "Adirondack"


• Lilac "Nadezhda", planted back in 2005, is blooming more heavily and beautifully than ever before.


• Last late daffodils


• First wave of azaleas

Growing nicely:

• Crape myrtles (front and back) are leafing out


• Peonies are up


• Earliest daylily has buds and later ones are up


• Korean lilac has buds


• Early hostas are coming up


• Siberian iris are up, in spite of needing to be divided


• Echinaceas and rudbeckias planted last year are up


• Clematis (what's the plural?) are up


• Centaurea from Maine, dug up and de-weeded to its bare roots and moved, is budding anyway.


• Buddleias are leafing out after being pruned

Annuals planted:

• 2 packs of State Farm zinnias, labeled "mixed"


• Pansies: Let Freedom Ring mix (front) and Antique Shaded (back)


• Lacinto Kale and green chard