Azaleas, near driveway

 South side

 North side

Mix

Last of the redbuds.

The redbuds drop flowers that are still in the height of bloom, no rot or brown. The driveway looked like there had been a parade there for two days.

Redbuds, Front garden.

 Redbuds are an oddity to me. I have never seen a tree produce flowers in the same way. In early Spring little purple flowers appear along seemingly smooth bark and cover the branches. When the leaves start to come the flowers drop. Janie got our two trees at a Nature Conservancy sapling giveaway. They were tiny slips that I put in the ground with little hope of success. They are both healthy and tall, twelve years on.

Hibiscus

I got 5 hibisci from Logee's, a nursery in Connecticut, all with very intense colors. This was the first to bloom.

Driveway pots, February 2012