Weeds?

A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place.

Now that's a sorry sight.  A big cartload of " Spanish Bluebells" that I yanked out of the flower beds. I must have planted one bulb once and now there are thousands.  They spread by deep roots and connecting bulbs underground, so they are just about impossible to get rid of without destroying the entire garden.

On the bright side, they're pretty for a little while and then disappear completely.  The problem is the dense leaves choke everything trying to come up around them. They even pop up right in the center of rose bushes.  So I'm not as heartless as it looks, ripping out pretty blue flowers.

But I wish we had a dozen of these blooming in April. I can't remember when I planted it, but this Virburnum Snowball is beautiful.  Woody ornamental shrubs aren't so popular anymore,  probably because they just sit there for 50 weeks of the year. They're tough and live for decades, so you still see them around old houses.

The Spring season is typically slow, wet and chilly in western Washington, but we seem to be headed right into summer.  There will be a little blip of rain on Friday, then back to dry and unseasonably warm weather for the weekend and beyond.  In fact, the long-term forecast is for another hot summer.  Good for growing you-know-what.