Spring Fever

If you live in Southern California you know how amazing the weather is.  This year has to be one the best in quite some time.  Although I enjoy the rain, the clear skys and mild temperatures makes me want to spend every waking moment outside. 

The trees have been in bloom for the past few weeks, my roses have started to regrow and my tulips are just breaking free.

I am especially excited about the tulips.  My son gave them to me last year for Mother's Day.  I let them die back and just stored them in my Gardening Shed over the summer and fall.  I pulled them out a few weeks ago, took them out of their original pot and replanted them.  They are loving the warm days and cool nights.

I also have an Amarylis that I got for Christmas 2010 that never bloomed last year but had lovely leaves.  I stored it in the closet and took it back out in November.  I now have an amazing stem and a flower that is about to open, but no leaves, or rather just the start of a leaf.  So funny.

So now I am ready to jump in with both feet and start planning my vegetable garden.  I have limited sun and lots of bunnies where I correctly live so looking foward to being "creative".  Last year this consisted of 4 cinder blocks stacked to raise the plants and produced a so so yield of tomatoes.  Hoping to have a better result this year. 

This is the Fruitless Plum in the yard next door and the pink flowers remind me of Cherry Blossoms.  So lovely.  Can't wait for my fig tree to start filling out.

I will post more as the garden takes shape.