Mother's Day weekend is the unofficial start of Tehachapi's growing season - we're pretty sure of no more frost. I continue to shape our "garden"- although I'm convinced that much of it still has to mature for it to look truly garden like. This is the Chinese Lilac my folks got me last year -- it has established well and has had beautiful blooms!
This is a new butterfly bush out front. The old one suddenly fell over seeming to have rotted. When I dug the hole for this one, on the right was a perfect underground tunnel -- yep! that pesky gopher must have been the cause of the problems. So when I planted this one, I surrounded it with chicken wire underground. 
Yay! My roses are starting to bloom!
...and the deer have returned (there are rosebuds missing from the stems!) I started seeing them last week. Yesterday Derek and I were at our computers at the kitchen table, I'm facing the main living room window. I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and thought I saw a small child before I realized it was a deer walking in our front yard. Derek and I jumped up and peered out the small octagonal window by the front door and there was the deer munching on my rose bush! I love our local deer but I also want roses! So I opened up the front door which 'convinced' it to go across the street with it's four buddies. Derek grabbed his camera and was taking photos and they just stood there with the "deer in the headlight" pose -- except for the one that was eating my rosebuds which kept on chewing the few roses he did get as Derek focused for his pictures!
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The lilac is beautiful! That is one advantage of your seasons. Most Lilacs need cold weather before they can bloom again.
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