Blossoms and diggings

The cherry tree in our yard has dark reddish leaves and right now it is covered in gorgeous dark red blossoms. Strangely enough there are 2 branches with green leaves and the blossoms on those branches are white!  I think what is happening is that these 2 branches have grown up from the roots. This tree was probably grafted onto the roots of a stronger sturdier tree and these 2 branches in question are reverting "back to their roots!"  The purist gardener would cut out these branches, but I rather like their unique look. Obviously I am not a perfectionist. Maybe that's why I have been quite successful at gardening . A perfectionist would have gone crazy or given up long ago! 
Nature is not perfect, but there IS beauty in imperfection...


My numerous bedding plants wait patiently out on the deck to be taken out of their cramped little pots and relocated to their 'forever homes', their chosen places for this season.  We finally got a relatively warm sunny day today without threat of rain, the first time in 2 weeks or more.


But today I did my gardening in another location far from here. We drove to our son's place and helped him put in a flower bed at the front of his house. He had dug up the grass there a while back so we removed that today and anything else there that we didn't want in that location. We mixed bags of top soil with the existing soil and removed the largest clumps of hard clay. 
Some of the shasta daisy and maltese cross diggings I had removed from my flower beds found themselves a new home there today.  Then we did some shopping to find some bedding plants to join the perennials. We chose dark blue petunias, red velvet snapdragons and white pansies. The end result was quite colorful and beautiful.


Then we decided to take advantage of the sunny afternoon and go for 18 holes of 'mini putt' , miniature golf.  The clouds periodically rolled in to obliterate the weak rays of the sun  to make it quite chilly until the sun managed to subdue the clouds and wrestle them out of its way for another while.


The mini putt course was quite charming and had a few quite challenging holes. Each hole had its own theme, along with an interesting array of perennial plants from peonies to thrift some already with blossoms. One hole had a collection of garden gnomes and another of  garden frogs of various sizes, but my favourite was the garden fairies and angels.  Quite distracting actually, when a person is supposed to be concentrating on getting their golf ball around another obstacle and into that illusive little hole at the end!  But we had a good time which is the main purpose, isn't it!?


Tomorrow I will get back to planting my pots of bedding plants ...