1st Week of May

The garden is really getting going. Many things are coming up. This is an updated picture of the lettuce-y thing which I don't know what it is. Can anyone help?
I think these might be scallions...


As I predicted, there are many more plants that are starting to emerge that I don't know the names of. Here are a few:

At first I very happily thought this was lavender blooming, so I picked a few stems to bring in the house. To my dismay, they did not smell like lavender. I remembered Marion telling me there was catnip somewhere, so I looked it up and, yes this is catnip. I wondered why one of the neighborhood cats was chewing on it one morning a few weeks ago.

The aspen and the maple in the front yard are sprouting some greenery.

The first tulip has bloomed and many more buds are ready.

Grape Hyacinth has been one of my favorite flowers since I saw them in Germany. I didn't know that there were any planted here, so I was exited to see them blooming with the tulips.

Some more daffodils have bloomed in the front yard.

Everything is starting to turn green, the rose bushes, honeysuckles, raspberry bushes, cherry tree, and a lot more that I will have to figure out. I hope it doesn't get too overwhelming to keep up with. But it is pretty exciting and interesting to watch everything go through each phase. I can't believe I'm actually starting to think things like 'I hope we get some rain' and 'Maybe that was the last frost,' although I've heard it could freeze again through the end of May.

I told one of my friends that the gardening genes actually did pass down to me. I remember my great grandfather pulling weeds and picking green beans off the vines that ran parallel to our driveway. Eventhough my mom was never a big gardener, she knows the name of every weed and flower native to SE Texas. This is my first yard since moving away from home and I guess it has caused my own, hopefully, green thumbs to bloom. I guess we will see in the next year or two.