The side garden, despite some epic weeds is the star this week. The first peony has opened in an intense magenta that matches the blooming mountain laurel that arches over from next door. Front Garden Update In the front bed, the bleeding hearts threw out another spray. But the columbine from last week are no …
What’s Blooming When Laika and I walked out the door this morning, I didn’t have the highest hopes that I’d have anything worth photographing on the homestead. I figured I might find some violets or creeping charlie if I got lucky. Right in the center of the front bed was a sole bleeding heart blossom …
Neighborhood Blooms Not much in bloom on the homestead grounds this week. A few straggly tulips and the bleeding hearts. But yarrow, dogwoods and Johnny jump ups are blooming in the neighborhood. Blooming Inside The House Much more interesting are all the blooms in the house. Violets started from seed have erupted in bloom, anthuriums …
The tulips are going out in a blaze of glory with these towering yellow sentinels. Bleeding hearts bloom strongly, but I don’t quite see what’ll come next. Neighborhood Blooms Things are starting to thin out a bit in my beds, but the neighborhood is still going strong. The grape hyacinth in particular might be a …
Temperature is falling, the wind is blowing and we’ll get a freeze tonight. But the sun is out and the tulips are glorious. The forsythia still have a few petals, but they’re pretty much done and I think it’s the last week for daffodils. The new violets are blooming beautifully, more frustratingly, so the creeping …
The spring flowers have started to really shine and weeding has started for the year. Friday Flowers Gardening Update Prairie Bed The last plants are finally in. 21 purple prairie clover, little bluestem and indain grass have been added to the bed. I can see that I’ll want to add more to the bed this …
Like nearly every other house on every residential street in America, a strip of landscaping transitions my foundation into the lawn. This is the piece of landscaping that has received the most attention from me over the past few years. In 2009, I put in two forsythias and we’ve added in a collection of self-fertile …