Dogwood Blooms

We meant to post earlier but have been busy enjoying all the beautiful blooms in our garden. Today the weather was so great, we spent almost 4 hours gardening! We did some weeding, brought all of the plants back outside from their winter hiding places, and planted some blueberry bushes. We had blueberry bushes before but Suresh got rid of them during the garden remodeling. We didn't even plan to get the blueberry bushes but got excited when we saw them at Lowe's. We accidentally bought a variety called Pink Lemonade Blueberries, so we'll see how they turn out! Hopefully, we get some yummy blueberries from our garden! 

Our new blueberry bushes 

Our bushes planted in their new homes

We are loving all the flowers in our garden and around town. My favorite that is blooming now is our pink dogwood tree. So beautiful! We also have white dogwood, yellow irises, and the daffodils are still blooming. Our apple tree is blooming, but apparently you have to have at least 2 apple trees to get fruit. So, we need another apple tree. We also have an overgrowth of blackberry bushes! We probably should pull them, but maybe we will wait to see if we get fruit first. The redbuds and cherry blossom trees were also wonderful but unfortunately we don't have any good pictures of them for you. 

Our white and pink dogwoods

I love our pink dogwood flowers!

Our irises are starting to bloom!

Flowers on our apple tree

Blackberry flowers

On the colder days, we've stayed in and done some cooking! On Wednesday, we made gavvalu, a sweet shaped like seashells that Suresh really loves. It was a long process, but definitely worth it. 

Shaping the dough!

After they are fried

Then, coated in syrup

The final product! Yum!