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My berry bush this year, is really bushy.  The raspberry spread so much, that I’m having hard time to find my blueberry plants.

Of all the berry, the black berry is always the one that flower first.

Black berry flower is tissue white, and is clearly visible from a distance.

Some of the flower does not take long to turn into berry.

It’s amazing how those strand of stamen become part of the berry as the berry grow larger.

White flowers are almost all over the place, looks like I will have a pretty good harvest of black berry this year.

This year I also planted a new berry plant, it’s the currant. I read that it’s pretty tart, but is very good to use to make jam, and very nice to use for decoration on a dessert cake.

The raspberry flowers are harder to spot, mainly because they’re very tiny.

At closeup,  they look like they have lots of strand of stamen too.

Buried somewhere is my blue berry plant, which look quite healthy, but not dense and bushy.

The raspberry I bought from local nursery grew really dense.

Overall, my berry bush is started to get out of control, to the point that I can’t go in to pull weed and do maintenance. Hopefully the berry bush will grow dense, create shade to stop weed from growing.

This year I also added a premade compost bin into my garden since the price is really reasonable and my home made compost bin from last year didn’t work as well as I like.

My skewpine leave plant (Pandan) has multiple from the mother plant, so I’m good in business to start to sell them!

The cantaloupe  that I transplant into the ground seem to adapt slowly, good thing that there is no sign of leave wilting.

The dwarf fig plant seems to like the cool Spring weather a lot.

The one year old fig plant somehow has two figs, and I read that they only start to fruit after two year. I will have to see how big those fig would grow.

The curry leave plant grow taller instead of  spreading with branches. This is going to be one tall yet skinny plant that I have to make sure wind will not blow and break it.

From a distance, my fruit and vegetable garden looks pretty neat.

The grass is really green this year,  they makes my garden look tiny.

Overall, it looks like my garden have a really good start in Spring. The hot midwest Summer is not far away, who knows what mother nature have prepared for us this year.  For now, I just have to enjoy all the green in my backyard, only if my wallet would be filled with green as well……

Well, we got quite a lot of rain in April and into May. Even though the night time temperature was cold, but we still got plenty of sunshine during the day to warm the ground up. With the rain water we get, my garden was taking off pretty nicely.

My in ground strawberry have larger leaves now. I had to set up a frame to put in net cover just so bird can’t get to the strawberry.

The flowers that came out in April are turning into strawberry!

Some of the strawberry just can’t wait to turn red. This is why I had to set up the frame to cover the strawberry circle as red color fruit attract birds.

Almost all strawberry plants have big cluster of strawberry.

Strawberry flower do not have any fragrant, and is white like tissue paper.

Those little seeds somehow would become part of the strawberry fruit.

My herbs garden also grew a lot from the rain season. My oregano  bush is getting dense even though I have prune and thin them down in early Spring.

The oregano are really healthy too.

The sage bush is super healthy.

I mean, the sage leaves get as big as half of my palm, and no sign of infection or insect attack.

My lemon is however, hanging in there and didn’t spread that much, may be because the sage has blocked most of the light so the thyme didn’t get all the light it need to grow and spread.

My chives bush, well, flower like no tomorrow.

The purple flower can be seen from any part of my garden, so of course they attracted some hard working bees.

Those purple flower are actually smell just like chives, and can be eaten, but they’re so pretty, I just can’t think of a reason why I want to eat the flower while there are plenty of chive leaves around.

My French tarragon  not only grow denser, but also taller. The young green look so healthy!

The tomato I transplanted into my raise bed garden remain short and tiny, I think the weather was still too cold for this sun loving plant to thrive.

My bay leave tree continue to grow taller, with newer lighter green color leaves popping out on top.

The cool weather loving sugar snap pea plants thrived in Spring weather and was ready to climb those trellis.

By putting the snap pea in rectangle pots, they don’t compete with weed and grass, so they grew healthy despite their skinny trunk but tall profile.

The berry bush area is getting exciting as well, but I have to post them in my next entry as this post is getting filled with too many photos.