AMARYLLIS FLOWERS PICTURES

A view of the garden I'm putting in at the front of the house and the new sidewalk. We had the sidewalk made of paving stones rather than concrete, and it curves through the trees. The old one was concrete, straight lines, and was dangerous at night because trees had pushed segments of it up several inches. The pink verbena at the lower right is a new color I saw this weekend at the garden store, and those mustards are also something I noticed for the first time. I'm going to buy a couple more of those and the verbena.

I'm not doing much work in the back garden yet. I'm waiting to see how the stuff I put in last year is doing. Because of our unusually cold and overcast winter, my plants from last year have been slow coming back and the seeds broadcast by some of them were late germinating. I don't want to weed them until I'm sure that I'm pulling out weeds, not my new crop of cleome and echinacea. Actually, I have a really nice looking patch of new echinacea (cone flower) plants and a lot of happy looking lilies and salvia. I can't find much cleome coming up, and a couple of the large perenials are looking seriously dead. I'm hoping for sudden life from the roots.

Campanulas are tiny perenial bells that I have introduced to my garden this year. I've grown them from seeds and the seeds were the smallest ones I've ever seen.