In Bloom

I need to get a picture of the new house with the flowers in bloom! They are fabulous! What with me being a horticultural illiterate and all, I had no idea in January what the sad looking bushes were around our house. Okay, I knew the rose bushes, and that was pretty exciting with as much as I loved mine back in Houston. And I guessed that one tree was a plum tree (I was wrong). But now that a spring and summer have passed, I have a better idea. Hey, I at least know what color the flowers are!

First the rose bushes are beautiful: I have red, purple, white, orange, and a hybrid orange with yellow like I had before. The bushes in the front are junipers, which have tiny purple flowers (I don't have to tell anyone who knows me well how much I love purple!). The large bushes on the side are either hydrangeas or something similar with both light and dark purple blossoms! I could sit in a chair and just watch these beautiful buds! How crazy is that!

The "not a plum" tree turned out to be a fuji apple tree which has a couple dozen tiny apples on it right now. There is a gorgeous redbud, with a few pecan trees at the back.

And what is Colin's favorite part? That there are NO pine trees to drip sap on our cars!