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Monday, July 21, 2014

Garden update

It is nice to have an unknown garden, although we have now lived here for 11 months so have discovered most things by now.


 My sunflowers, having grown very well in this hot and humid climate, have just started to flower. They are much taller than me and I so far have a yellow and a red one!


 It is a bit sad we are going away today. There are a lot more flowers on the way, but I hope they will still be here when we come back.

We also have some lovely pink flowers on the tree outside the middle bedroom and some new yellow flowers behind the watering hose.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Spring arrived & today's Police action

Back from South America, Spring properly arrived in DC. We had several warm days before I left, but the trees and plants had not properly woken up.
Today I noticed:
Pink flowers on neighbors tree

Little blue flowers in our lawn - hmm... how do I cut the grass without damaging them?

The Tulips turned out to be yellow, but are almost done!

The green leaves on our hedge are turning red and the little tree above the tulips have pink leaves.

Little red flowers on the bush below the porch

Sun-flower seeds I sawed before I left for Peru & Bolivia are sprouting up

More blue flowers on the lawn in the back garden. They look nice - but are they weeds?

Tulips in the back garden are also yellow!

and some dandelions. I have to go and by a tool to dig them up before they spread.

Today's police action happened around lunch-time. A lorry was pulled over at our junction by a police car with the sirens on! Stayed for around 20-30 minutes.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Winter finally over?

Weather in DC is strange, one day snow - next day shorts, T-shirt and BBQ. Anyhow it seems like the snow has stayed away long enough for a few things to poke up in the garden from below ground. As we moved into the house in August this is an exciting time, to find out what we will see the rest of the year.
Right now we have:
Little white flowers in a shady spot in the back garden and

something that definitely looks like they will be Tulips in the sunny spot.