I thought I'd share some photos of what's in bloom in our yard right now. We currently don't have much in the way of gardens, so most of what's growing out there is just naturally there. The combination of needing as much grass as possible to graze animals on and too little time for gardening has kept my green thumb and love of gardening dormant. That's something that we're planning on changing, little by little, in the coming years as the kids get old enough to foster an interest in gardening. In the meantime, we'll keep enjoying what little we've got in the way of blossoms. This carpet of violets almost makes the thought of digging up the lawn for more formal gardens somewhat of a sin.
As does an abundance of bluets. I love how they look like little patches of snow leftover from the winter. I always wait until they've stopped blooming before letting the sheep up to graze in the yards and paddocks they grow in.
As I mentioned
yesterday, the forsythia are having a wonderful, brilliant year. We have some that we purposely planted along the property line (shown in my
photo of the pony pasture yesterday), and also a very large plant at the front corner of our yard. Two years ago I cut that bush WAY back (down to nothing) after several years without blooming. The past two years it's been ridiculously loaded with flowers, so obviously it was a trimming well needed.
Here's another of the few things I've planted in our yard -- a bleeding heart which comes up every year around the base of the chimney. The past two years, Zoo Boy has picked all the flowers as quickly as they bloomed, but this year he's adamant about NOT picking the flowers (these flowers at least), even though flower-picking is one of his very favorite activity.
To make him feel better, I told him he could pick as many dandelions as he wanted. Certainly doesn't bother me if he kills off a few dozen dandelions a day, although the sheep would object -- dandelions are the first things they eat when turned into a yard or pasture. Of course, it's much more fun to pick a dandelion after it's gone to seed and you can make a wish and blow away the fluff. He'll have to wait a few weeks for that sort of fun (unless the sheep get to them first...), although he gave blowing on this yellow blossom a pretty good try anyway.
I thought I'd share some photos of what's in bloom in our yard right now. We currently don't have much in the way of gardens, so most of what's growing out there is just naturally there. The combination of needing as much grass as possible to graze animals on and too little time for gardening has kept my green thumb and love of gardening dormant. That's something that we're planning on changing, little by little, in the coming years as the kids get old enough to foster an interest in gardening. In the meantime, we'll keep enjoying what little we've got in the way of blossoms. This carpet of violets almost makes the thought of digging up the lawn for more formal gardens somewhat of a sin.
As does an abundance of bluets. I love how they look like little patches of snow leftover from the winter. I always wait until they've stopped blooming before letting the sheep up to graze in the yards and paddocks they grow in.
As I mentioned yesterday, the forsythia are having a wonderful, brilliant year. We have some that we purposely planted along the property line (shown in my photo of the pony pasture yesterday), and also a very large plant at the front corner of our yard. Two years ago I cut that bush WAY back (down to nothing) after several years without blooming. The past two years it's been ridiculously loaded with flowers, so obviously it was a trimming well needed.
Here's another of the few things I've planted in our yard -- a bleeding heart which comes up every year around the base of the chimney. The past two years, Zoo Boy has picked all the flowers as quickly as they bloomed, but this year he's adamant about NOT picking the flowers (these flowers at least), even though flower-picking is one of his very favorite activity.
To make him feel better, I told him he could pick as many dandelions as he wanted. Certainly doesn't bother me if he kills off a few dozen dandelions a day, although the sheep would object -- dandelions are the first things they eat when turned into a yard or pasture. Of course, it's much more fun to pick a dandelion after it's gone to seed and you can make a wish and blow away the fluff. He'll have to wait a few weeks for that sort of fun (unless the sheep get to them first...), although he gave blowing on this yellow blossom a pretty good try anyway.
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