How Does Your Garden Grow?

Emma is learning to make more and more different noises and she loves music so we've been singing to her more. In doing so we've discovered that nursery rhymes that we thought we knew seem to have fallen out of our heads.  As I was thinking about the flowers outside, I though of "Mary, Mary quite contrary, How does your garden grow?"  But of course that was the only part of it I could remember.  I decided to look the rest of it up on the internet since I was sitting at a computer, but recently we were at Steppingstones Museum for Children and in the gift shop I found Todd reading "Humpty Who?" from cover to cover so we bought it.  Now we can use that to look things up and not only are we remembering more songs, bigger fragments of lyrics are starting to come back on their own.

"Mary Mary quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty maids all in a row."

At our house we have less silver bells and cockle shells and more tulips, hyacinths, and narcissus but the tulips at least are certainly in a row.

And from the other side.

I know trees don't actually bloom, but the Japanese maples seem to.  Now the leaves on largest Japanese maple are completely open.

Here our hockey gnome has more flowers every day.

Around our medium sized Japanese maple I like the way the pink hyacinths and narcissus look together.

The tulips were such a brilliant color I had to give them a closeup. 

These little guys poking up next to the tulips are some of my favorites.  Grape hyacinths really look tiny in comparison to the tulips.