June 3, 2008

some more flowers

here are some more of my front yard treasures....
this year we got a wonderful group of purple balls blooming. it is just so refreshing to see those spikes coming up and go into bloom earlier then most of the other purples.
this "jack in the pulpit" is one of my favorites. hidden under the now booming black raspberries, i love them soo much. i got a few "offsprings" plants from a friend and forgot about them during the winter. i got a few more bulbs of "jacks" and they all came up. even better they are a little different then the baby plants from last fall.
o my lupines! how wonderful they came back after last years disaster. the winter a year ago was not cold enough and some little critters were eating all the perennial roots. as i realized this spring, not all! yeah, and here they are again.
lovely blue/purple, as you can also see in the wonderful picture book about "miss rumphius"

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