Wisteria Blooms!

First, the Center Bed has grown quite a bit since I posted about transplanting the daylilies there. Everything is doing well with one exception. The lavender apparently didn't survive the harsh winter. I have cut it back to where the few green sprigs are at the very crown. Will give them another month before yanking them out.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was anxiously waiting for my wisteria vine to start showing some signs of life. I don't know how I missed it over the weekend, but today while inspecting the plantings to see if everything survived yesterday's wicked thunderstorm, I discovered this...

The vine is just loaded in blooms! I have my fingers and toes crossed that nothing happens to prevent all these buds from flowering. If they all do flower, it will be this vine's best showing ever.

I don't know if you can tell from these photos, but my wisteria is pink rather than the more common lavender/purple variety. I bought the sickly plant on a clearance sale at LOWES about eight years ago. I babied it along for the first two years than it just went crazy! I have to prune it about once a month or it would completely take over the entire backyard as it is constantly sending out these long and twining new shoots which grab ahold of anything nearby.

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I also mentioned earlier that the yellow alyssum would soon be in full bloom. Here's a photo to prove it...

The only other plants currently flowering are a few tulips on the south side of the house...