First Day of Spring: part 2

I love the sentiment

This is a picture rich post. Almost all these plants coming up are from 30 years past or gotten on sale or for free last year.

Red hosta?

Iris?
I wish I remembered what color!

more iris, I guess

hosta to the back

I scraped back the leaves and found these tendrils growing sort of in the center. Last fall, I was planting to things two in a pot when I got desperate. So, I am not sure what this will be. I hope it is not a weed since I will lovingly care for it. Yes, Coffeypot, I may be watering weeds.

 

 

 

hosta at 2o'clock and a mystery plant

 

Can you see how the plant died back? 

 

 



antique planter, destroyed

 

I bartered with someone for yard work, specifically clearing out a jungle that has encroached from the back neighbor's yard. Dragging a small tree with a spread of 15 feet through a passage that is about 12 feet wide is a recipe for disaster. Charlie does not respond when he wants to just do what he wants to do, damn the consequences. The USA pot had the whole bottom broken off on one side.

 

He got his full value. I had my value reduced because of his not caring. He does NOT allow destruction in his yard. Urge to kill wells up!

iris

 

 

fireants

 

It would not be the South without fireants. This is about one fifth of what I can see. I imagine the rocks protect a much larger nest. When we lived in Jackson, MS in the 1950s, banks along the sides of the roads would have fireant colonies that were 10 feet long and extended up the banks for five feet. This was not unusual at all.

 

Okay, I am tired and need food. I will be back with maybe more interesting pictures.

 

No proofing here!

 

Your turn

Are you as happy with bulbs and plants that return as I am? There are only a few annuals that I will buy. Do you try to get iris bulbs from friends who have the colors you don't?

 

 





First Day of Spring: part 1

five pots of tulips

 

 

I worried about these last week, or maybe it was the week before. They are really growing tall. Remember, these lived in a plastic bag in a cold house all winter. I hope there are actually tulips. Maybe that is what I planted.  ???

 

 

 

one tulip? two tulips?

 

Which will I have? Only one bulb is in the pot. There is another pot with two sprouting things, also.

 

 

future greenhouse?

 

This was going to be my greenhouse for winter and spring. But, I could never afford the heavy plastic. sigh But, it is working for these right now. There is a board across the arms of the swing and another across the braces. I rarely sit in this swing since I prefer the wooden one on the other side of the yard. 

 

 

 

112 year old board

 

The board is part of my falling apart house. Let me go measure it. When I took pictures early this morning, I forgot my tape. It is 8'2" x 11 3/4" x 3/4". It was about 12', but I had the broken part cut off. Just as it is will be a great place for seedlings. Hopefully, cats will leave them alone, squirrels, too.

 

3 something

 

It looks like only one survived. If I were smart, I would have made notes of what I planted where. I think I recorded it in pictures somewhere. Where did my young agile brain go? Has anyone found it?

broken ear

 

I picked him up by his concrete ear and broke it. What fixes this? NOT concrete.

What is this?

See the Hosta coming up behind?

 

It grows to about two feet, looks like an umbrella. Eventually, it will have a small flower underneath the leaves.

 

Okay, this is all for this post. I went to the doctor again last night and have bronchitis (oh, I told you that) and did not sleep all night because wheezing kept me awake. I am not sure I even know how to use the inhaler. Please don't explain it to me.

 

There is lots more in my yard that I will put in another post. Now, I am going to sleep.

 

Your turn

Can you answer any of my questions?