Here is a glimpse into my early spring garden. Every spring I lament over how I cannot grow my most favorite of all flowers... the tulip. I've tried and tried only to be furiously disappointed when tender shoots each spring are decimated by rabbits, moles and chipmunks. I suppose tulips are their very favorite too. Anyway, I have accepted that tulips just are not part of my landscape. Will understands my love of tulips and has often surprised me with cut bouquets from a florist and has sent fresh flower arrangements to me at work always making sure that no matter what the season, at least a few tulips are included... I'm sure the florist loves it when he is asking for tulips in August... hee hee. 
Right now my white dogwood trees are blooming, white candytuft (a ground cover), mini-mini daffodils and the prize of my spring garden, the five leaf akebia... (above).It is a woody vine that's covered with segmented green leaves and blooms only a short time in the spring. (Sometimes I actually miss it blooming, it is very brief). It produces waxy little chocolaty-purple flowers that smell really sweet. On deck for blooming early in May: Prairie Fire Crabapple tree, various aliums, peonies, Viburnum (white) and if I'm lucky my Nelly Moser clematis.
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