Another Sunday and another day spent out in the garden doing my best to clean things up so the new spring plant growth can be enjoyed by all. It might be tedious work but hot damn if I don’t love it.

I am feeling good about where things are at this point as all of the grasses have been cut down, all of the dead spring foliage has been removed and I now realize how awesome I am the garden will be looking in the near future.

Let’s take a look at the latest and greatest.

The Daffodil Season of Sunshine are in full bloom after being planted only last autumn. Daffodils truly are not only deer proof, but fool proof as well.

And there are other daffodils ready to bloom any day now.

Most of my container planted tulips are in full bloom. I’ve left some blooming in their containers outdoors.

And others are now chilling in a vase.

My lilac shrubs are starting to display their flower buds.

The boxwood shrubs are also blooming … which is kind of … whatever.

The delicious foliage of Geranium ‘Espresso’ has truly emerged.

And once again, I am way too excited just to see the new growth of Cimicifuga (Bugbane) ‘Pink Spire’. Lordy I hope this is the year they finally make their presence known.

Like I mentioned a few months ago, Veronica ‘Royal Candles’ is a consistent performer for me year to year and they are back for more once again.

All of the Astilbes have awaken and that always makes me happy.

I completely forgot about my Rhamnus (Buckthorn) ‘Fine Line’ until I noticed this “stick” with signs of life. Color me excited.

As I did last spring, I cut back about 1/3 of the branches on my Physocarpus (Ninebark) ‘Diablo’ after being pleased with the results last spring/summer. It put on a foliage show but remained in bounds.

And finally, the severely cut back Salix ‘Hakuro Nishiki’ is already showing major signs of life so all is good.