Quick Yard Update

Not much going on in the yard at the moment, but here's a quick shot of some annuals coming up in the middle of the yard. I bought a six back of "mixed annuals", and five of them look like this guy (1 of them pink instead of purple), with the sixth being the one pictured in my last Hoes blog.




Here's an odd volunteer that's come up in the big wooden planter. The leaves look similar to my three leaf sumac, but it's dormant, so surely this couldn't have come from it. Seems odd that something like this would come up in the dead of December, and be thriving through our mild to cool weather. I'll keep posted pictures as we see what this thing turns into.

Unfortunately my cardinal vines, which were thriving back in November, are succumbing to the cool 40 degree nights we've been having these past three weeks or so. They've all turned yellow and have started to shrivel up. In better news, I have volunteer wildflowers coming up already all over the yard from last spring's plantings, including numerous poppies, purple scorpion weed (it's prettier than it sounds), and now two confirmed lupines, one of which is now a few inches tall.