Spring is here

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

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!

I hope this gets those green thumbs going!

Thank you for stopping by.
Mark