Garden Joys

It is pretty good to be able to leave tulips in the ground and have them come up and flower again each year:

In front of the tulips, a dwarf bearded iris is flowering for the first time:

We bought four of these at Macedon garden lovers fair in 2017, and this year they are starting to take off. This is the first one to flower, and it has a few more buds coming.

Speaking of buds, look at these:

Wisteria flower buds! Last December I mentioned that the wisterias had reached the top of the pergola posts. They spread out along the pergola a bit during summer. And this year one of them is going to have flowers!

And in another part of the garden the crab apples have started blooming:

They do look pretty when they are in flower.