Flowers and onions

 As you can see there is more buck weed and crab grass in my lawn than anything else.  I think that is a very good reason to fill up most of the yard with plants :)  Above is a pic of the lilac bush I planted last year.  It is now around 30" tall.  Just look at the blooms on it :)

 This is a mum that my son and daughter-in-law gave me last year.  It was in full bloom and was gorgeous.  I planted it within a few days of receiving it.  I guess it likes the space it was given.  It looks large enough to be divided.  I will do that this fall so I can have 2 of them. 

This is the rose bush that I received from my son and daughter-in-law last year.  It had some very pretty white roses on it last year.  This year it is bushing out nicely.  I hope there are more blooms on it this year.

There are some irises that someone planted at the NW corner of the house.  They have not bloomed since I moved in here.  I want to move them to the area where I have the other flowers planted.  Maybe they will bloom next year if they are in the sun instead of the shade where they are now.

There has not been much going on in the garden the past few days.  I did manage to get carrots, beets, herbs, and onions in.  It was a bit late for the carrots, beets and onions but I am hopeful that enough of them will grow so I can get some canned.

I got the onion sets in very late but they were above the ground in less than a week.  Must be they were shocked into growing because I kept them in the fridge until I could get them planted.  The week they were planted, it was very warm.  I planted approximately 150 of them.  Am hoping they grow into nice sized onions instead of being just green onion size.  If the onions grow to a nice size, I will dehydrate and powder them for use in my garden veggie soup.

Now all I need are some lilies and a poppy plant :)