IN THE YARD
There’s a pair of big irises that open late, as the others are fading and drooping.
Honeysuckle has just started to appear among the roses. I’m not sure if it’s an invasive variety or not.
We put in several Japonica bushes, which I like because their leaves are yellow & green all year. The reddish blossoms in front are said to be butterfly magnets, and the other day I saw a hummingbird among them.
These are said to be primroses, and the run rampant for several weeks.
Last but not least, our hardy rose bushes bloom twice a year, and they’re well underway with the spring round.
Here’s our yard sign!
One of my all-time favourite Chuck Fager posts! I’m not a gardener — my garden now consists of containers full of flowers (and occasionally tomatoes or lettuce or basil) on the front porch and the deck and beside the driveway and the gazebo — but we’re certainly a wildlife habitat here (though not certified)! Deer, opossums, skunks, porcupines, raccoons, grey/black and red squirrels, chipmunks, voles, moles, deer mice, red foxes, coyotes, garter snakes, spring peepers, painted turtles, toads, salamanders — and I’ll spare you the birds and insects. They are not as magnificent as your flowers! But they don’t require any maintenance from me.
Oh, I forgot! We do have two big iris beds and four persistently small red rose bushes. And at the moment lots of daffodils and narcissus in the rock garden and little nooks here and there.
Hi Chuck, Yeah, those primrose flowers sure look just like Mexican evening primroses to me. Lovely photographs! Paz, Pat
Thanks, Pat! I’ll keep taking flower pictures as long as they keep blooming!