The crabapples were beautiful this year.
Their fragrance amazing.
I am so to see them fade away for another year.
This is the Centurian crabapple in it's earlier stage of bloom.
This is what it looks like as it ages a few days.
I enjoy it in any stage of bloom, but is most fragrant as the blooms mature.
The lilacs are in bloom now and are so pretty that I will be sorry to have them go.
This lilac is called Sensation.
I like the white edges on each floret.
This is a double lilac that is un-named in my garden and is truly a beautiful
one when it blooms. The bush is small as far as lilacs go, but it is always packed
from year to year.
It has a Sensation on either side of it and both flank the gate leading to the clothes line.
The white lilac is Avalanche. It blooms profusely and the bush is huge.
This is Beauty of Moscow in it's early stage of bloom.
LOVE this lilac!
This lilac below is President Lincoln and it is a beautiful periwinkle blue
in color.
It's flower tends to be a little loose and frothy and I like that about it.
In the photo below you can see how loose it is and how it looks as the sun bleaches
it's color.
This lilac below is Charles Joly.
It smells heavenly and the bloom is compact and tight.
This photo is when it first bloomed out and is a magenta color.
As you will see in the following
photos that it fades to a more purple shade in the sunlight.
Charles Joly several days after.
The Snowball Viburnum are starting to bloom this week.
it's the first year that they have ever bloomed this well.
and all I can say is "finally"
So many things are starting to really come alive and things are looking very lush here.
LOVE this time of YEAR!
