The Lithidora has bloomed! So pretty, so purple. It's funny how living flowers are never too cutesy, never precious, even though a painting of them might be.

Pictures to be uploaded soon.

Pleased with Perennials

Woot! Just look at that Bleeding Heart! I am declaring this year a success already, even though I've done just about nothing. And it's all due to this Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis - thanks Wikipedia), that I put in last year, and some other comebacks:



The luscious Lithidora (Grace Ward variety)

Always-reliable Clematis (White and Purple)

And an assortment of spring bulbs.

Thanks, and more to come!

So a big "thank you" to people who have commented on this blog. You've gotten me to come back and even do a bit 'o the old posty posty.

The way I am with the blogging? It's about the way I am with everything, including the garden. The poor poor garden - it's a good thing I've been replacing high maintenance plants with low maintenance stuff, because I am all about the benign neglect.

Anyway, after a looong winter, I am seeing crocus, daffys, and my butterfly bush all coming back. Along with the ever-present "garlic" (i.e., lilies). So the garden's coming back and so is the blog.

A Tree Grows no More in Pennsport

My block in Pennsport is, like many other Philadelphia blocks, tree-lined and shady. It's beautiful in spring, and keeps the houses cool and, until recently, I thought all of my neighbors shared my affection for our hardy neighborhood trees.

So I come home a month or so ago and my neighbors had taken down a lovely mature tree that was in front of their house. Why, you might ask (and we did). Because apparantly trees "leech stuff out of the bricks" and "stain the sidewalk" and "attract rats."

You have got to be kidding me.

Yeah, the trees attract more rats than the trash you leave strewn about in front of your house. And you mind the leaf litter on the sidewalk but could care less about the tobacco juice your son spits on it or the bubble gum ground into it.

Some people have no sense.

Name change, wha?

Some of you may notice that the name of the blog has changed slightly. This is to prevent confusion with a different and long-established blog called Adventures in my Urban Garden.