Spring is finally here!  The windows have been open for 3 days and the heat has been off!  My seedlings are sprouting by my window while my tulips and hyacinths are about ready to bloom outside!  Two more weeks and I can move my seedlings outside.  This year I’m growing tomatoes, red peppers, carrots, rosemary, basil, chives, garlic, lavender, pansies, silver dollars, and caladiums.   I just came in from trimming all the dead branches off my Rhododendron bushes and now I’m working on my outdoor to do list going!  Pulling a few bushes out this year and replacing them, removing one of the holly bushes out front and replacing it with a hydrangea bush, pulling a rhododendron out on the side of my house and growing gladiolus along with some silver dollars, lavender and pansies on that side of the house.  Going to do red geraniums in the back this year, I should have grown the geraniums from seeds but it’s too late now, but I will grow them from seeds next year!!  I’m really into growing everything I can from seeds or bulbs this year, I love the satisfaction of it!  Going to do my spring clean up this week 😉 want to get it done before my neighbors do theirs.   Two years ago my neighbor and I started a competition with the rest of our neighbors to see who’s property can look the nicest all spring/summer/fall.   Now if I could just figure out a way to have window boxes without having to drill holes into my house!  I used to have boxes that used a bracket that was held on by the screen in your window however it won’t work w/the type of screens I have on this house but I haven’t given up yet on having window boxes!   Since it’s supposed to rain today and tomorrow I will have to wait until Thursday to get going on my spring clean up, trimming bushes, blowing the sand out of the driveway and of course raking up the stray leaves that were missed in last years fall clean up.  Then in a few weeks I can start concentrating on planting my seedlings and getting what I didn’t grow from seeds this year.  Will post photos once my tulips and hyacinths are in full bloom!