More Yard Pictures

Most of the year I'm spending the bulk of my time sweating outside watering the yard in the dead of the night, trying to keep everything alive. So it's nice this time of year to just take pictures and enjoy the sights and smells. Those days will be coming to an end soon, so I'm soaking them up.

My columbine have multiplied into two pots, and I have some others coming up in my big planter beneath some other groundcover. We'll see how these fare when the temps go up.

In the foreground, the monkey face plant continues to bloom away, with some jonquils in the background.

A closer look at the jonquils.

A view across the big planter at the indian and globe mallows, which continue to bloom.



The asian pear tree, planted as a bareroot back in December, has started to leaf out. It fruits in late spring/early summer, so in future years there is hope that we'll have some pears before the summer heat takes its toll on everything. I'm not so confident in my nectarine, which leafs out late and is supposed to put out fruit in August.

Some of the purple lantana that's thriving next to the house.

The golden fleece survived last summer and it never got cold enough to kill it back this winter, so it's already blooming all over the yard. I haven't bought these plants in at least five years, but they continue to reseed themselves all over the place, even in our harsh conditions.