Scenes From Georgia's Garden

Just a few photos from the garden...

We noticed that azaleas were besieged by Bumblebees.  I took lots of pictures trying to get the "best".  I had several good ones, but settled on this.

The Creeping or Ground Phlox is in full bloom.  A good ground cover on the hill facing our house, except that it tends to look a little scruffy when it's not in bloom (most of the year).  But it's really nice when in bloom.

The Bullfrog that is currently occupying the small pond in front of the house.  Those are the Blue and Yellow Flag Iris in the pond.  They should bloom sometime in May.

Someone must have eaten the two goldfish that we've had in the pond for the last couple of years; they're not anywhere in evidence.

The apple trees are blooming.  Maybe the squirrel will leave us an apple or two.  But I doubt it.

Tradescantia or Spiderwort.  It grows like a weed here, and spreads readily.  It is native to the area, but I don't know if this is a native or a cultivar.  I don't believe we ever bought any, though.

A small butterfly (Clouded Sulfur maybe?), stopping at a small weed (Oxalis).

The hillside covered with Phlox.

Wood Poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum), a native.

Eastern Red Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), also a native.  Spreads quite willingly by seed.

A Verbena flower also hosting a Bumblebee.  I'm not sure which of many Verbenas this is, but it is a very low growing one.  It's marginal in hardiness, a hard winter will wipe it out, but it survives most of our winter.  This winter hardly slowed it down at all.

The Eastern Dogwoods are about at their peak.  All our dogwoods are "wild", either left from when the lot was developed, or grew up from seed since then.