The bright colors of spring!

Today we ’re check in with Sue in Chattanooga , Tennessee , where spring has come .

It is just the rootage of all the flower , but after the cold and gray and chocolate-brown of winter , I ’m excited to see color in myfront garden . Sabrina , my cat , insists on being in most of my garden photos . The equalisation and planting of the front garden is the consequence of five years of hard work .

Sabrina the guy poses with tulips ( Tulipahybrids , Zones 4–8 ) and phlox ( Phloxsubulata , Zones 3–9 ) coming into blossom and the silvery bushes of lavender ( Lavandula , Zones 5–9 ) just arouse up after winter .

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Phloxplanted at the edge of a retaining wall fall over the boundary beautifully .

This wait down the front garden shows the two unlike levels . tulip and phlox dominate right now , withbearded irises(Irishybrids , Zones 3–9 ) ready to do on a trivial afterward .

conclude - up of a tulip

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Here is the bright color that ’s so welcome once bounce at long last gets here !

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cat in a small garden bed with colorful flowers

bright red tulips and pink phlox planted at the edge of a retaining wall

view of front garden and road

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