Everything is Blooming

Backyard

This is a partial view of my backyard with two flowering pear trees that were in the yard when we moved in. It seems the whole neighborhood burst into bloom in the last three weeks, with pear trees, cherry trees, forsythia bushes and daffodils everywhere. I heard the first birdsong on Easter day.

The pachysandra on the side yard has just about finished blooming.

This is the first violet I've seen in the yard among the pachysandra.

We have two saucer magnolia trees in the yard. This is a blossom from one of them.  We had a couple of nights of freezing temps, and it killed most of the blossoms.

This is one of the several Brunnera plants in the yard that have just burst into bloom.

There are several rhododendron plants in the yard that are just appearing through the soil.

These plants are perennial bachelor buttons that just appeared above the soil in the side yard. It will be three or four weeks till we see the blooms.