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Easter Surprise

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Indigo Buntings Feeding in Back Yard

This pink Knock Out rose is a nice combination with the light purple garden sage blooms, and even after the sage is done blooming, the pink looks nice with the blue-green sage foliage.

Pink Knock Out Rose Among Garden Sage Blooms

The combination of the lavender and the red penstemon also works well for me. The lavender is one of the most popular plants in the courtyard with the bees, and is full of buzzing bees all day long.

Lavender and Penstemon in Bloom

In the same bed with the pink Knock Out and the garden sage is this purple clematis. This is the second spring for this plant, and the blooms are almost twice as big as they were last year. What a surprise.

Clematis Bloom

Our native wisteria was hit hard by our last freeze last week. Only the lower blooms survived. All of the foliage and blooms on the upper part of the plant were frozen. I hope it will try to push out more blooms before summer, but I am grateful that some blooms were spared.

Wisteria Blooms

This Fortuniana rose only blooms in the spring, but it is glorious during that time. I am wondering just how much bigger it will get. I like the graceful shape of this plant, and the birds love to hang out in its dense foliage.

Fortuniana Rose in Bloom

Hope everyone is enjoying their spring!

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  1. Those indigo buntings look like they were dyed along with some Easter eggs! So beautiful. Is central Texas their normal range?

    Posted by Pam/Digging | April 13, 2009, 6:24 pm

  2. Central Texas is at the western edge of their range according to the bird book I have. I hope this pair decide to stick around for the summer. I would love to get some really good pictures of them.

    Posted by Carol | April 13, 2009, 7:46 pm

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