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This week my garden is leaning heavily into the woodland look, which means:

1. Green is the dominating color, with flowers, like the honeysuckle, showing up more like sprinkled-in accents.
2. The weeds are thriving right alongside the flowers.
3. The choke-cherry suckers and volunteers are – ahem – getting quite carried away, since I haven’t (yet?) corralled them (attacked them viciously with pruning shears).

See more pretty green-and-green in my lovely spurge, which is so obligingly vibrant and bright from shady bits of my front garden.

Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years gives some very insistent hints that my bright-orange rose, Austrian Copper, should be blooming soon, so there’s more than green to look forward to.

Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows more orange roses to come, and continues to tease me with irises – though that crop from 2021 surely won’t be outdone for a long time to come…and this year looks like it’s planning to be rather the opposite…  We’ll see.

…This week, with all the spring rain we’ve been having, my garden is lush heading rapidly toward overgrown.