How Does Your Garden Grow?

It has been a very cool and cloudy spring in Seattle.  Just a week before the Memorial Day holiday and here's the forecast.

Monday Partly Cloudy, Light Showers Day: 55° Night: 44°

Tuesday Partly Cloudy Day: 63° Night: 49°

Wednesday Mostly Cloudy, Morning Rain Day: 59° Night: 43°

Thursday Partly Cloudy, Light Showers Day: 54° Night: 46°

Friday Mostly Cloudy, Evening Rain Day: 56° Night: 42°

Saturday Thunder Storm, Rainy Day: 53° Night: 43°

While I would prefer warmer, sunnier days, the garden is very, very happy.  Especially the weeds (but I'm not going down that snarky path).  Here are some photos I snapped this morning in my jammies (from inside the house).

This is the  backyard, looking out through a bedroom window. 

The left side of the driveway.  Even on an overcast day, it glows.

Alchemilla mollis or Lady's Mantle.  One of the cool things about this plant is the leaves are covered with tiny hairs which causes water to bead on top, looking like tiny transparent pearls.

New growth on the Lady's Mantle.  In a couple of weeks there will be sprays of tiny, tiny yellow flowers that sit above the leaves.  They hold well as a cut flower.

Wiegela 'Dark Horse' against a bright background of Spirea.

I debated whether to include this shot.  The focus was not on the center of the tulip but rather the tiny drops of water on the petals.

Allium, just starting to open.  When in full bloom, this will look like lavendar fireworks.  It's an interesting dried flower too.  Some of the tiny flowers are holding rain drops.

How does your garden grow?