A few growing things!

The garden is happy with the warm weather we've been having. The squash and zucchini are starting to come like crazy, the tomato jungle behind them has dozens of tomatoes of all sizes - a couple will probably be perfect to pick on Saturday. The trellis in the furthest box will hold the beans. You can't see them yet, but there are several plants that just popped their heads out of the dirt and by next week, we'll have a bean forest too!

We weren't sure this tree would survive - it took some heavy pruning on the roots and then the winter was so cold lots of people lost plants and trees. But it's back and happy to give us shade this summer.

You can just see the gladiolus bulbs have come up and are growing well. I planted 60 bulbs total in different areas of the planter bed, and so far it looks like we'll have a 90% success rate. For a first time bulb planter, I figure that's pretty good.

Lots of rose bushes. These will be beautiful when they are grown. Already they've doubled in size - they are expected to grow to half their mature size this season. I can't wait! The ones I've planted here are: Back row (L-R) 2 Generous Gardener, 1 Glamis Castle, 2 Irish Hope; Front row (L-R) 1 Jude the Obscure, 2 Glamis Castle, 1 Crocus Rose. (http://http://http//www.heirloomroses.com/)