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ysabetwordsmith) wrote2022-04-18 11:57 pm
ysabetwordsmith) wrote2022-04-18 11:57 pm
Yard Pictures: Savanna and Prairie Garden
These are pictures from Saturday, April 16 mostly showing the savanna and prairie garden. See the house yard and orchard, forest garden and herb gardens, south lot and west edge, forest yard and wagonwheel garden, and ritual meadow and flowerbeds.
This is the inner windbreak.
The Dolgo crabapple is leafing out.
These are yellow multi-flowered daffodils.
This is last year's pawpaw seedling.
Here is a closeup of its leaves.
This is the wildflower garden.
Daffodils are blooming around the tricolor beech sapling.
The prairie garden is greening up nicely.
This is the big bluestem patch with the dead stems raked off.
Here is the densest patch of daffodils. I think I planted most of these two or three years ago.
These are large-cupped daffodils.
These double daffodils are creamy yellow.
This peach daffodil is quite dark, almost salmon ...
... but this one is a pale, barely-there peach.
This clump of mixed daffodils was planted last fall. Compare it with ...
... this clump of plain yellow daffodils that has been there for many years.
Here is a closeup of the yellow ones.
This big clump of ice follies is also old.
Here is a closeup of them. They're white with a very pale yellow cup.
The path around the prairie garden is mostly moss right now.
Here is a closeup of the moss.
From the prairie garden, you can see into the bee tree. There are a couple of honeybees on the rim of the hole. Inside you can glimpse natural honeycombs.
This is the younger strip of little bluestem that we planted last year. The funny thing about bluestem is that it doesn't turn into a green pincushion shortly after sowing like lawn grass does. You can hardly see it the first year. But the year after that, it tends to grow in just fine. So this summer we'll see how it goes.
This is the older strip of little bluestem. I think we planted them a week or two apart.
Cup plant is leafing out.
Black raspberry is well leafed out.
Blackberry is just starting to leaf out.
Dandelions are just starting to bloom in the prairie garden. Technically they are an escaped agricultural crop, but they have a lot of wildlife value too. I have a hat from the North American Dandelion Preservation Society.
Wild strawberries are well leafed out. They quite like the mulch I've been spreading in the sunchoke patch, although the sunchokes haven't sprouted yet.
This is the inner windbreak.
The Dolgo crabapple is leafing out.
These are yellow multi-flowered daffodils.
This is last year's pawpaw seedling.
Here is a closeup of its leaves.
This is the wildflower garden.
Daffodils are blooming around the tricolor beech sapling.
The prairie garden is greening up nicely.
This is the big bluestem patch with the dead stems raked off.
Here is the densest patch of daffodils. I think I planted most of these two or three years ago.
These are large-cupped daffodils.
These double daffodils are creamy yellow.
This peach daffodil is quite dark, almost salmon ...
... but this one is a pale, barely-there peach.
This clump of mixed daffodils was planted last fall. Compare it with ...
... this clump of plain yellow daffodils that has been there for many years.
Here is a closeup of the yellow ones.
This big clump of ice follies is also old.
Here is a closeup of them. They're white with a very pale yellow cup.
The path around the prairie garden is mostly moss right now.
Here is a closeup of the moss.
From the prairie garden, you can see into the bee tree. There are a couple of honeybees on the rim of the hole. Inside you can glimpse natural honeycombs.
This is the younger strip of little bluestem that we planted last year. The funny thing about bluestem is that it doesn't turn into a green pincushion shortly after sowing like lawn grass does. You can hardly see it the first year. But the year after that, it tends to grow in just fine. So this summer we'll see how it goes.
This is the older strip of little bluestem. I think we planted them a week or two apart.
Cup plant is leafing out.
Black raspberry is well leafed out.
Blackberry is just starting to leaf out.
Dandelions are just starting to bloom in the prairie garden. Technically they are an escaped agricultural crop, but they have a lot of wildlife value too. I have a hat from the North American Dandelion Preservation Society.
Wild strawberries are well leafed out. They quite like the mulch I've been spreading in the sunchoke patch, although the sunchokes haven't sprouted yet.
