A Few Days of Warm Weather & my Front Yard is Aglow

In the front yard the crabapple tree is in full  bloom. This only happens every two years, so we really enjoy the few days it blooms.  Please forgive that I took these pics when the sun was in the wrong position. I think you can still get an idea of the pure pink/purpleness of my front yard today.

 With the purple creeping phlox under planting,  my pink star quilt is a perfect complement, don't you think?

 Here is the full quilt hanging on a crabapple branch. Note the lovely white-flowering tree in the neighbor's yard that obediently bloomed at the exact same time. 

 Try not to look at the black top soil where my dear husband has removed a flower thug of mine that invaded the yard. After digging it all out, he replanted with grass seed....hey, I told him five years ago to get that awful sedum coral out, but he did not listen. So every time he mowed the grass, he was tossing more of the thug and every piece grows.  He had a real mess! My saving grace is that his mother gave it to me, so he can't say much. LOL.  I have posted numerous times about this awful plant...we will be forever trying to rid our yard of it.  Just look under the label "Garden Thugs" if you want to know more.

 I have a pink azalea blooming in my foundation garden.



There is more purple creeping phlox in front of the azaleas.  My quilt looks just as nice with this planting :)

I think this would be a nice spot for a lunch picnic, don't you?

After a nine-hour workday today, I am off for the rest of the week.  Whoo Hoo!!!  This is my working vacation.  I will be tending to my gardens, my deck plantings and doing some heavy-duty house cleaning.   I will probably be posting more this week since I will have more free time.

Tomorrow is supposed to be thunderstorms all day.  That is OK with me.  I just planted 3 blueberry bushes in my rock garden and they need the moisture. 

They already have a few berries:

 I planted three of them back in the rockwall area.

I also have cherry trees back there. So maybe one day I will get a fruit pie from these plantings!