Hello all. For those of you that have been patiently waiting for a posting, your wait is over.
I have been busy with bears for the past several weeks and they are now finished and waiting to be named. Which will be another posting… And I have been planning my vacation, yet another posting…
I have been working in the yard; I got to take the lawn mower out for a spin this weekend :-( Not one of my favorite things to do, it ranks up there with going to the dentist, working on plumbing and working on the car. Lawn mowing is not quite as bad as last year since I no longer have a front yard to mow. I have included several photos of the front yard spring progress. I’m adding names to the photos so if you see something you like maybe you can find it at you local nursery.
Here’s a general view of the front yard. I hope you can see improvements from the Feb 21 posting from an image from last fall.
So far all I have done in the front is pull a couple dozen small weeds which stand out quite well in the tan crusher fines. It also helps that I am drip irrigating only in the immediate vicinity of my plants so unless we get rain the rest of the area stays very dry. To date we have received about 0.6” of rain this calendar year.
Walker’s Low - Catmint/Nepeta
I have been busy with bears for the past several weeks and they are now finished and waiting to be named. Which will be another posting… And I have been planning my vacation, yet another posting…
I have been working in the yard; I got to take the lawn mower out for a spin this weekend :-( Not one of my favorite things to do, it ranks up there with going to the dentist, working on plumbing and working on the car. Lawn mowing is not quite as bad as last year since I no longer have a front yard to mow. I have included several photos of the front yard spring progress. I’m adding names to the photos so if you see something you like maybe you can find it at you local nursery.
Here’s a general view of the front yard. I hope you can see improvements from the Feb 21 posting from an image from last fall.
So far all I have done in the front is pull a couple dozen small weeds which stand out quite well in the tan crusher fines. It also helps that I am drip irrigating only in the immediate vicinity of my plants so unless we get rain the rest of the area stays very dry. To date we have received about 0.6” of rain this calendar year.
Walker’s Low - Catmint/Nepeta
Wine cups/Callirhoe and a closeup
All the little mounds in the foreground are Cerise Queen - Yarrow/Achillea millefolium
And in the back yard.
Jupiter’s beard/Centranthus rubber – These guys started out as 1 – 2
plants and after 5 years they have spread to 8 – 10 plants and Karl Forester – Feather Reed Grass/Calamagrostis x acutiflora – these put on flowers that last though the winter.Bearded Iris – We inherited these so I can’t be more specific than that
Since I took these photos even more is blooming!
Since I took these photos even more is blooming!
I hope this gets those green thumbs going!
Thank you for stopping by.
Mark
Thank you for stopping by.
Mark
I like the look. Its just so natural for your area. You need some more rocks though. Unique ones. Your Iris are beautiful. I love Iris. We are finishing a frog pond in the back yard and I will be landscaping it just as soon as the weather in Northern Indiana decides what season we are in. I have deep purple, almost black Bearded Iris and hope to acquire other colors soon.
ReplyDeleteYep, I like the yard too, so much more CREATIVE than it used to be! But.... where's the pics of the bears you were working on? :) yeah, yeah, never satisfied....
ReplyDeleteif you need rocks, come up to visit your sister, I can send you home with lots of northern Wisconsin rocks.... I am sure the airlines would love for you to bring those home and pay extra for 'em!
OMG, Mark - I just saw the pic you have at the top of your blog! What a COOL pic! Hey - you need to post all those cool pics you were taking in fall (what year was that anyway?) of all the mushroom growths on the trees...
ReplyDeleteI did look at other rocks. They were too large for the area, something like 6' x 3' x 2'. I wanted multiple rocks instead of one big one. The only reason for the rocks is to keep cars from coming in the yard and redecorating the front of the house. This has happened to our neighbor on the corner and the house directly across the street from us.
ReplyDeleteAs for bears, I'm still waiting for Sue to give them names. I don't want to put up their photos and say here's 61, 62, 63 64 and 65....
I think there's a law about exporting WI rocks to NM......;)
I think I have a bunch of the moss photos buried on this computer somewhere. I'm my own worst critic so a lot of my images will never see the light of day. I was up in WI in October of '07 when I did the teddy bear show in Ann Arbor.