Tag: spring

It’s a little glary right now, but I’m not sorry to see several more days of warm sunny weather forecast.

This spring, I’m kind of bummed again about not having many spoons to put into planting things (or maintenance work back there). Which makes me extra glad for the wildflowers which keep coming back!

That green alkanet has been blooming for at least a couple of weeks now. It’s pretty weedy with a lot of root spread, but the little forget-me-not type flowers are nice enough that I only bother it when it starts trying to take over that bed.

The Welsh poppies just had some blooms starting to open up today. There should be a lot more blooms soon. At the front, that’s a neglected strawberry pot that they must have seeded themselves into last year.

Even with some deadheading, the poppies will get to looking pretty scrubby later in the season. But, they’re cheerful enough that I would plant them if they didn’t keep themselves going. One year they somehow managed to die out, but they came back after that–or I probably would have gone looking for some to harvest seeds from. Should maybe save some seeds anyway, just in case.