A few shots of the sorts of flowers growing in our yards at the moment. These daisies are something that came up for the first time this year --I assume the seeds came in with the hay we used last year and have now taken ahold. They have a very furry looking leaf and are quite distinct. Along with those daisies are some yellow mustard sort of plant (in the lower left portion of the photo -- not sure which species exactly) that last year took up most of the space the daisies are now occupying. (And along with all of those are three of our hens, a Buff Rock, a White Rock, and a Partridge Rock -- nice looking birds, no?)
These daisies are more typical of what we've always had growing around here, and are more what I think of as "daisies". They have a larger flower with pointier petals (the petals on the others are quite rounded), and the have a more classic "daisy" type leaf. This bunch is actually growing in the kids' play area, which is the one small patch of lawn that we actually mow (with my Grandmother's antique rotary push mower). But we couldn't bring ourselves to hack down such lovely flowers.
A few of the clematis that I planted many years ago. For the most part the vines have been eaten off by sheep and trampled down by dogs, and most have dissappeared over time. But I still have a few plants that stubbornly refuse to die and still bloom every year. Now that the area they are growing in is set aside as the kids' play area, they have a fighting chance of really getting established again and returning to the splendor of their first few years, where they draped over the fences and filled the side yard with blossoms during June and into early July.
One of many day lilies, also something I planted long ago, and also something that is just too hardy to let constant sheep munching and dog-trampling affect. In fact, they are doing so well, I really should divide them out this fall. We'll see....there's always so much else to do, and it's easy to forget about these guys when their cheery orange faces aren't greeting us.
Ok, ok, so this is NOT in my yard. I wish! Maybe someday when I finally get around to establishing an aquatic garden. But I almost feel like I can lay claim to the frog pond that this lovely pond lily grows in, since we've visited so frequently this summer, releasing our
froglets and hunting for tadpoles.
A few shots of the sorts of flowers growing in our yards at the moment. These daisies are something that came up for the first time this year --I assume the seeds came in with the hay we used last year and have now taken ahold. They have a very furry looking leaf and are quite distinct. Along with those daisies are some yellow mustard sort of plant (in the lower left portion of the photo -- not sure which species exactly) that last year took up most of the space the daisies are now occupying. (And along with all of those are three of our hens, a Buff Rock, a White Rock, and a Partridge Rock -- nice looking birds, no?)
These daisies are more typical of what we've always had growing around here, and are more what I think of as "daisies". They have a larger flower with pointier petals (the petals on the others are quite rounded), and the have a more classic "daisy" type leaf. This bunch is actually growing in the kids' play area, which is the one small patch of lawn that we actually mow (with my Grandmother's antique rotary push mower). But we couldn't bring ourselves to hack down such lovely flowers.
A few of the clematis that I planted many years ago. For the most part the vines have been eaten off by sheep and trampled down by dogs, and most have dissappeared over time. But I still have a few plants that stubbornly refuse to die and still bloom every year. Now that the area they are growing in is set aside as the kids' play area, they have a fighting chance of really getting established again and returning to the splendor of their first few years, where they draped over the fences and filled the side yard with blossoms during June and into early July.
One of many day lilies, also something I planted long ago, and also something that is just too hardy to let constant sheep munching and dog-trampling affect. In fact, they are doing so well, I really should divide them out this fall. We'll see....there's always so much else to do, and it's easy to forget about these guys when their cheery orange faces aren't greeting us.
Ok, ok, so this is NOT in my yard. I wish! Maybe someday when I finally get around to establishing an aquatic garden. But I almost feel like I can lay claim to the frog pond that this lovely pond lily grows in, since we've visited so frequently this summer, releasing our froglets and hunting for tadpoles.
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