Wintered-over geraniums

I am late getting the wintered-over geraniums outside. For several years I have put the geraniums, pots and all, in the basement over the winter. It has been very successful.

In the spring I normally put the pots on the porch for a few days or a week to acclimate the plants. This year because it is so late, I'm just going to put them outside though they will be in the shade of the oak tree.

Will have to see if they make it this year. Also, I wintered-over the calla lilies that Martha gave me. They are sprouting so have my fingers crossed that that experiment worked.

Miss Uno

I was sure I was going to capture Uno looking half-way content. She just can't keep a non-grumpy face though I think this is pretty neutral for her.

Tree peony

The tree peony has started to bloom. I think I need to move this thing. It is getting rather large.

My odd azalea plants

My two azaleas are crazy beautiful again this year. But why do they never grow. They have been this size ever since I got them years and years ago.
The peach colored one is barely 12" tall. The pink one is maybe 2' tall.

Water feature back up and running

Photo is at an odd angle but the water feature is back up and running for the season.

A lot more work this year to get it going. The basin needed to be re-balanced. Getting it out was the easy part. The patio stones around the edge needed to be reset. That was the difficult part.

There is uneven settling of the stones and some of them are splitting. I'm not surprised as I didn't have the ability to set the stones in a layer of sand when I installed the patio some years ago.

Still need to grout the stones and clean up the river rock that cover the basin lid.

Hopefully the birds