Eye Candy Friday...

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...and it's April!

The garden is coming along. We have baby Blenheim apricots now.

Baby Blenheim apricots

More Dutch irises:

Yellow and white Dutch irises

A couple of tulips:

Purple parrot tulip

And a new clematis:

Dr Ruppel Clematis

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