Flora Update

I was getting my camera ready to take pictures of the birds, when Ella came outside in her jammies and started putting on my gardening gloves and "pulling weeds." She was concentrating really hard.

tending to the pepper plant

rearranging the dirt


weeding around the hostas
(check out that crazy bedhead!)

Here are some pictures of some new blooms in our garden:

blooming rhododendron


first purple clematis on vine


first flag
(I think these "flags" are really called irises?)


up close shot of center of clematis


petunias


cilantro for our Mexican meals

first flower on one of the cucumber plants