What does your garden look like ... Today?

[JBtheExplorer]

Snow. Not happy. This is NOT how I wanted my Prairie Smoke to look mid-April.

 

[alp]

Fritillaria Persica Black tower and ivory tower are blooming.

 

[alp]

Sorry for the blurred Ivory Tower

 

[Sean Regan]

It's not looking bad.

It was a golf day today, as usual, so didn't get into the garden until about 3.00pm.
Gave everything a feed. Purged the koi pool bottom drain, which after pumping out the pump sump to waste, as usual removed the last couple of gallons of gunge with a wet n' dry vac. This makes excellent fertilizer for our azaleas and rhodos as a 50/50 mix with water, as fish poo is acidic.

Then gave everything a "coat of looking at."

The lawn is responding to its 3 in 1 treatment last week.

The new clematis we bought are doing well.

Lots of blossom on this quince

and this Conference pear in its tub on the small patio

Lots of flower buds like these on our five established wisterias.

The rockery is doing well, but I'll have to get into it tomorrow to do a bit of weeding.

These azaleas in the front garden will have masses of blooms again this year. The lawn round the far edge is a bit iffy as it is always at this time of year but it will recover.

 

[David from Dothan]

 

[Sean Regan]

Today, the lawn looked as if it needed cutting..again, might not get done tomorrow as I'm going to start to jet-wash the drive in the morning. Could be raining on Sunday, here.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Thought I'd share some of the photos I took around my pond today since it was such a nice day out and the animals were active. Quite a few plants are growing now, but not too much worth photographing yet.

 

[DirtMechanic]

I am so sorry..

 

[alp]

I am so sorry..

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He's hitching a ride! Or ... very desperate!

 

[MaryMary]

I wonder why he's doing that. Maybe he was a rodeo rider in a past life.

I wonder why the fish isn't trying to buck him off!!

 

[alp]

Perhaps, it's face-blind!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Not too much going on in my garden yet. A little green here and there. My native violets definitely help add some greenery.

Over by my pond, my Marsh Marigold is just beginning to bloom.

 

[Sean Regan]

I am so sorry..

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This situation is a koi keeper's nightmare.

It's an instinctive action by a male frog searching for a mate. The problem that is that with fish of this size,, by clinging on the frog can close the koi's gills and it will suffocate. It happens quite often.

 

[DirtMechanic]

This situation is a koi keeper's nightmare.

It's an instinctive action by a male frog searching for a mate. The problem that is that with fish of this size,, by clinging on the frog can close the koi's gills and it will suffocate. It happens quite often.

See... there is nothing new under the sun. Even if edgy movies want you to think so.

 

[alp]

See... there is nothing new under the sun. Even if edgy movies want you to think so.

Didn't know it's so sad a scenario! Just when you think there is something to laugh at!