Pink moons and spice bushes

Amazingly the clouds cleared up later, on the night of the pink super moon and she showed up. Beautiful, golden, not pink. I found that the pink doesn't refer to the moon, but to the wild pinks, flowers, blooming around now.

If you saw it through a haze, though, you might have got the pink effect, who am I to spoil your moon!

And my spice bush, viburnum carlesii, is in full bloom, powerful scent like vanilla but sweeter and deeper.

Here it's pushing through the cherry bushes, those leaves on the right.

 It's taken years to get established. The first few springs it put up leaves which were immediately blighted. But finally last year it started blooming and this year it's really living up to its billing.

It's heavenly just standing near and getting that great scent. It drifts on the wind right over the neighborhood,  so I'm doing community service by growing it.

There are a lot of ways to serve a community. I like to garden to give neighbors something good to see and smell. And I give away a lot of herbs to local good cooks. I've moved my herbs out front to make it easier for them to pick.

 A lot of divisions of daylilies have gone to people who planted them in Trenton to beautify the city corners. Quite a few of them now grow all over my own neighborhood, too,along with irises.

It's good to exchange irises and daylilies with other gardeners, too. Such a treat to grow and give plants and views.

 With a very limited working area,  it's no use my studying the White Flower Farm catalog for actual planting purposes! It's eye candy though. But I'm pretty much full up.