Thought I’d share a brief update on some of my various garden spots around the yard. The progress photos as well as future plans for each spot.
First, I want to share my unexpected iris blooms with you. I moved these 2 years ago and they finally decided to forgive me and bloom. A yellow one and a purple one, almost ready.
And of course, now, I think I may move them again. Another future project churning in my mind. My thought is to move these over and around the maple tree in the front yard. They’ll get plenty of sun there and not be so crowded out by my cheerful daffodils.
On One Side of the House
There’s only the small clump of irises, had hoped for more before I went a little daffodil crazy. The daffodils have faded. I’m in that impatient phase now where I have to let the daffodils naturally fade away and not mow the leftover greenery out of the way. However, I did sneak over yesterday and plant some sunflower starts behind the daffodil greenery. I can just imagine one of my new flower garden spots being a wall of sunflowers. (We determined the shed wall where I first wanted to go with the sunflowers didn’t get quite enough sunlight for them.)
On the Other Side of the House
Not really a flower garden side as this is where we put the raised garden bed my husband built from the used box springs. However, I couldn’t resist adding a few marigolds to it, mostly for practical reasons.
Front Yard Areas
Really, I’m trying to hold off on doing too much to the front yard areas until Mother’s Day weekend when I expect good sales on outdoor flowers. Plus, this mess is a bit much. Some day I’ll be better at knowing what’s a returning perennial and what’s a plucky weed. Maybe.
However, I did cave and buy my favorite little blue flowers one day last week.
They’re still in the pot. And when I was out getting the marigolds, I also picked up a pot of lemon grass to put next to the stinky boxwoods.
Oh, and the alliums I planted to give color to the herb garden are just about ready to bloom…
That’s all I have to report on the front yard areas for now. Not as much as we walk around to the back yard.
Back Yard Areas
I have more flower garden spots and ideas than I have time and budget. Anyone else with that problem? So, I’ll just share about my wildflower area.
I had two tiny wildflower blooms! Not the best pictures (excuse the blurriness, I went out to take another but the flowers are bent over and almost spent now)
Here’s what the area looks like from a little further out. I’m waiting (impatiently) on my late summer wildflower blooms. I have some fencing around it this time (some of you may remember when my well-intentioned neighbor decided to “help” by weed eating my first attempt at this. Then, last year just didn’t go real great. Third time is the charm I hope!
Next time, I’ll fill you in on the vegetable garden areas. Not as exciting or fun to me but we still give it a try every year.
Are you gardening this year? How’s it going so far?