The Beginning of Spring still looks like Winter

Photo above. K-Mart no-name special twig of a Lilac three years ago. Today...waiting to bloom.

Photo above: Miss Kim at the back, hydrangea at the front.

A very ugly garden at the moment. I am posting these pics because I know soon I will be able to look back and see the progress nature and I have made.

There are two Lilacs in my garden. A few weeks ago I transplanted Miss Kim from the Madam Pierre Oger Bourbon Rose Climbing hedge. Last season I had no idea how the roses were suddenly going to take off and overtake the Miss Kim Lilac. "Syringa patula". Much to my delight it has survived the transplant and there are now tiny leaves emerging. This is clearly a different variety of Lilac to my no name brand K-Mart saved twig that is already laden with flowers waiting to pop open in a few weeks. Miss Kim's label says she flowers in May and will grow to three feet tall.