I’m joining the SOS gang this week to share some recent happenings in my garden. Spring has truly sprung here and the pollen has been in full force, my sinuses cannot recall a thicker more long lasting coating of pollen. I think the February freeze inspired the oaks to flower. To travel the world via SOS – visit Jim at GardenRuminations
Artemis blasted off over my garden on its way to the moon. My husband was squealing in the back yard. It was quite a sight. We are a few hundred miles south of Cape Canaveral.
A totally different flight landed in the front garden. This is a Great White Egret easily four feet tall.
The Sweet Begonias (Begonia odorata ‘Alba’) have been very sweet this spring.
I have been picking tomatoes for a week or two. Here is a lesson in open pollination. I saved seed last year thinking I would get large yellow pear tomatoes. I got some! And some much larger pink campari style tomatoes and small red cherries. Fortunately, they are all delicious.
This is a bud on a White Bird of Paradise (Strelizia nicolai) This has been in the garden for 7 or 8 years, is at least 12 feet tall and this is the second flower! I keep going out to see if it opened yet.
Spring snow is starting on the Hawaiian Snowbush (Breynia disticha) The foliage gets a bit whiter and then goes back to green. This is a bit of a garden thugs and difficult to pull up.
That is my garden update. I’m wondering if this is the first garden rocket in SOS?
Happy Gardening!
The Shrub Queen 
Wow, that is an historic site. How exciting. And wow to the Great White Egret. I have only ever seen the little ones which appeared in the UK a few years ago. He is a handsome fellow. Fabulous to have tomatoes in April.
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You were so lucky! I would have loved to see the launch. We had egrets back in Texas, but I never had one land in the yard. You had a very exciting week.
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I know I have friends about 50 miles north that got a really good show, usually all we can see is a squiggle in the distance. I have winding shell paths I think the birds mistake them for creeks. I get herons a lot.
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Did you ever hear of Gibbs Garden in northern Georgia? Just saw it on PBS.
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Oh yes, Jim Gibbs was a generation ahead of me at UGA and a very well known high end residential landscape architect with a design/build company in Atlanta. I am not sure if his company is still around.
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Fabulous photos, all of them! How nifty to see Artemis II blasting off over your backyard–I would be squealing, too! Enjoy those delicious Tomatoes. 🙂
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