Year 3 - Day 88 - March 28

And now, a week or more after all the other flowers in the world, our double play big bang (isn't that the coolest name?) spirea are blooming. Finally. They look like fall in the spring! I like these plants because they're lots of different colors throughout the year. They start like this, turn dark green, then almost yellow in the summer sun, then back to green and finally back to fall colored at the end. They also get purple flowers on them twice a year. (Hence the double play part of their name.) And they must be hearty, because we didn't kill them yet!