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ysabetwordsmithThis is the last batch of pictures from Saturday, April 16 showing the ritual meadow and flowerbeds. See the house yard and orchard, forest garden and herb gardens, south lot and west edge, forest yard and wagonwheel garden, and savanna and prairie garden.
Here is the view looking southeast into the ritual meadow.
The firepit is full of big bluestem grass stems with a few sticks on top.
The path out of the ritual meadow to the parking lot is covered in moss.
Here is a closeup of the moss. That wrinkled brown thing in the middle is a black walnut, and juglone from its decayed outer hull likely caused the gap of moss around it. Black walnuts make juglone to discourage competition.
Snowdrops are done blooming in the savanna.
If you look closely, you can see the seedpods developing.
This is the tulip bed. The green spears on the left are irises in a dark purple, almost black. Here are some examples of black iris varieties. Just to the right are peonies in dark pink, hard to see here. Farther right are tulips.
This tulip is budding.
This is the daffodil bed.
This one is white with a light orange cup.
These are the volunteers in the parking lot.
One of the volunteers has very narrow tepals (the base petals behind the trumpet) forming a star shape. So this cluster has a star daffodil, a pale orange-cupped one, and several plain yellow ones. Proto-landrace with diverse genetics! :D
These daffodils are blooming under the Home Base mulberry tree.
Several patches of violet leaves are yellowing in the yard near the sidewalk to the house. As this is where a pile of walnut logs were stacked after part of a tree fell last summer, I surmise that lingering juglone in the soil is stunting them. Violets seem to grow just fine under walnut trees, but they probably have a threshold.
Here is the view looking southeast into the ritual meadow.
The firepit is full of big bluestem grass stems with a few sticks on top.
The path out of the ritual meadow to the parking lot is covered in moss.
Here is a closeup of the moss. That wrinkled brown thing in the middle is a black walnut, and juglone from its decayed outer hull likely caused the gap of moss around it. Black walnuts make juglone to discourage competition.
Snowdrops are done blooming in the savanna.
If you look closely, you can see the seedpods developing.
This is the tulip bed. The green spears on the left are irises in a dark purple, almost black. Here are some examples of black iris varieties. Just to the right are peonies in dark pink, hard to see here. Farther right are tulips.
This tulip is budding.
This is the daffodil bed.
This one is white with a light orange cup.
These are the volunteers in the parking lot.
One of the volunteers has very narrow tepals (the base petals behind the trumpet) forming a star shape. So this cluster has a star daffodil, a pale orange-cupped one, and several plain yellow ones. Proto-landrace with diverse genetics! :D
These daffodils are blooming under the Home Base mulberry tree.
Several patches of violet leaves are yellowing in the yard near the sidewalk to the house. As this is where a pile of walnut logs were stacked after part of a tree fell last summer, I surmise that lingering juglone in the soil is stunting them. Violets seem to grow just fine under walnut trees, but they probably have a threshold.
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