Our garden is coming alive!

This year my garden took a little while to come to life, in spite of our mild winter. However, now it is finally showing off some beautiful colors! Although these aren't as cute as our boys, I thought some of you might enjoy seeing what is growing right now...

A tiny, wild-type tulip. It's the size of a crocus.

Alpine snowdrops - each came back this year with a friend.

The ever spreading crocuses

Pink Lenten roses (hellebore)

Purple prim roses - they come back every year, with more flowers!

Red prim roses

This hellebore is some fancy variety -
more flowers, multicolored flowers, red stems and leaf veins... 

I have tiny violets everywhere...

This is SW Washington - we have moss on all the surfaces!

My favorite, "freckled" Lenten roses (hellebore)

Miniature daffodil, anemone, and johnny-jump-ups

More crocuses

A bee collecting nectar from one of the pink-speckled hellebores

A drift of ever-spreading johnny-jumpups

My philosophy in gardening is to remove unwanted weeds as they come up, but to plant only plants that care for themselves after planing. I really only spend about an hour or so per month, if that, in the garden "gardening"...