A Little Spring for your Step

I've had spring fever since January. It's kinda like getting senioritis your freshman year. Even though everything blooms bigger (and sooner) in Texas, my favorites still take their sweet time to appear.  But finally, my German irises are exploding purple everywhere!

 

They've had quite a journey.  When we moved to the country from Austin almost a year ago, I just couldn't bear to leave them so I dug 'em up. What a sweet reward in just a year! 
Also arising from their winter state as "dead sticks coming out of the ground" are my Texas Star Hibiscus.

In just a couple months they'll give me gigantic red and white blooms. They actually come with a fun family story.  My Granny kept them in her garden until my Papa saw them, thought she was growing an illegal herb, and mowed them down.  I don't think he ever heard the end of that one.

Finally, my poppies are showing their buds.

 

 

Of course, this is the time when there are 1,000 things going on in the garden, but these are my sure signs that frost is over and summer isn't far away!  Roses are next!