One of the happier things about moving to Wisconsin was discovering that, in the spring, there are masses of lilacs everywhere. I think some of them got frozen in the snowstorm we had several weeks ago, but the blossoms are out in force now. I know these are not really blue, but it's about as close as we get to "armfuls of blossoms of blue."
I was also very, very happy to discover that we have a beautiful patch of wild phlox in our backyard. These also grew wild in Ohio and we would walk down to the "10" bridge and bring home bunches.
Our irises have been in bloom for awhile and of course, we always have johnny jump ups, also known as violas or wild pansies.
Last year, I saw an ad in a magazine for a variety of lilacs that blooms all summer. I told Rene about it and being the agronomist that he is, he got out his seed catalogs and found some and ordered them. Oops...they were pretty much bare rootstock. They'll probably bloom all summer about the time we either die or sell the house to the power plant!
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I missed getting tons of flowers on Mother's Day to plant all over the yard this year.
Ugh...I really wish you were here to help do it! We need the yard to look nice if we're going to have wedding stuff here!
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