the Garden

It's been a very unusual spring this year. We are pretty much stuck at home, and as nice as our backyard is, it would have been nice to be able to go out and watch as nature woke up all around us - and take some dolls pictures out and about in it.  But now this year.

It's been a very  unusual spring weather-wise, with temperatures soaring, then dropping below freezing, only to skyrocket back up again. It's like a weather roller-coaster out there, and many plants don't like it much at all.  Thankfully the small patches of scillas we have didn't mind the unexpected late snow....

The star magnolia on the north side of the house put on it's usual display....

..but our big saucer magnolia out front suffered some major frost damage for the first time ever. The flowers were just starting to come out, when we were hit by an Arctic inversion and temperatures plummeted way below freezing and all the flowers froze....

...and they all turned brown...

Then 'spring' returned for a few days....

Things started to grow....

Then the first heat wave of summer hit, and everything shot out of the ground so fast you could almost sit and watch it grow. Five days later it looked like this....

It does look very nice, but most of it isn't very good for doll photos, except as 'background' for anything other than fairies. Maybe I should go look for some.....