On the agenda for today was to do some initial prep work for the annual spring mulch project. But first, I took my usual walk through the yard to see what I could see. I still have a few daffodils blooming.

The yellow and white daffodils are joined by a bunch of crocus bulbs.

I had quite a few daffodils bloom this year.

The Chinese Snowball is waking up for the season.

This is unusual. I appear to have one confused snowball that is already trying to bloom several weeks ahead of schedule.

The Japanese Camellia is still blooming.

Two of the three individual plants bloom in pink, while the other one blooms in red.

The dividing line between the pink and red sections can be seen in the photo above.

The Star Magnolia is blooming.

This is the most blooms I've ever had on this shrub.

I also seem to have one confused Korean azalea bloom. This, however, is not unusual. It seems to get confused easily.

The plant for today was to prepare the yard for the annual mulch project.

I'm going to keep the same color scheme as in previous years.

The individual plants will all get black mulch. The Yellow Flag irises will get red mulch.

The difference this year is that, thanks to all of the divided/relocated iris bulbs from last summer, I'm going to have a MUCH LARGER area of red mulch.

All of the area previously occupied by grass by the camellia is now filled with irises. So this entire area will be red.

The entire area in between the dogwood tree and pampas grass plant seen in the photo above is now going to be filled with red mulch.

The center section of irises will also get red mulch just like in years past.

And the new iris area on the other side of the design will get red mulch. I anticipate needing A LOT of red mulch, much more than in previous years.