The growing season comes at last
June 11, 2006: After what seems like weeks of rain and cool weather the yard is very green and very wet. The great thing about - Knowing – is that if you let them interesting things just grow. There is no fretting over the dollars spent on that shrub that is now drowning. You can use what is at hand (that just comes up) or that you pull out from along the road. The fact is that my Tiger Lilies came from a sand heap on a back road near my home (about 18 years ago) and have been spreading and growing ever since. I do add some bought things: Seeds for vegetables and also get plants from my Dad and other friends and family. But I am afraid my Morning Glory seeds have rotted in the ground this time.
The things I find out there and then those that I keep I try and nurture. So rule number one is – Give it a chance before you chop, hack, trim it, mow it or yank it out –
Yard photos (also see photos in this post) before the growing season really takes off.
Back path to the woods beaten down by wheelbarrow loads of clippings (more on what those clipping are doing in the woods later). Note in the June 10, 2006 post there is no path (many trios to the woods today). VIEW
June 11, 2006 front side looking east at Hostas (in arc under tree) and Tiger Lilies up on berm near house. In a July the berm, to the right, will be ablaze with orange Tiger Lilies and then in August the yard, to the left, beyond will be a blue haze of Corn Flowers. Posts coming soon, once I finish catching up...