Irises starting off the parade...

gorgeous

lovely

Looks great Lori!

Thanks folks! The yellow water iris is breaking blossom today...wouldn't you know it?! it's raining pitchforks...! Tomorrow I'll try to get a photo...

Lori:

You have a spectacular garden...it so manicured! I love it!

Allow me a smile here, D1!!! I left my old garbage container right in the middle of the shot!!! LOL... Will have to post some before shots...so you can see how it really looks! I had just done some weeding and the morning light is always kind! Thanks for your kind comment!

Lori:

The garbage container gives it a little bit of artistic ambiance. lol.

I have Jacaranda flowers all over my walkway to the house and
everywhere else...and I just swept yesterday...your yard looks very nice clean.

Wonderful Lori. No one could guess that pond was put in last summer! Everything is naturalized. :-)

Delonix1: great! artistic ambience...must remember to use that phrase next time I forget to clean up after myself. hahaha! ..I suppose the Jacaranda flowers might track but they must look as lovely as a carpet as they do on the trees!...I have a Vibrunum trilobum in blossom now and the outer brachts fall to the ground and float in the pond~ they look like confetti...and I don't bother to sweep. like the apple blossoms I love to see the "confetti" on the ground.
Thanks for the positive reinforcement Gt! it was such a slog! lol..... : - )

The garbage container looks good Lori. It makes your garden look like a work in progress :)

hahaha.... well you know, Mike...that's pretty much what it is...it's never the same from year to year...but garbage cans come and go! hahaha...