Category: gardening

Naturalized.

Our municipality’s Council recently approved a bylaw amendment to allow naturalized areas in residential areas.

Don’t tell anyone (shhhh), we have had naturalized areas in our yard for years now. This bed in our front yard is full of Purple Coneflower (background), Tickseed (foreground), and Gaillardia (out of the frame). While I can broaden my knowledge of insects in general and pollinators in particular, I am certain our yard is friendlier to pollinators than that of almost all of our neighbours who have (mostly) turfgrass and imported ornamentals.

We also let dandelions go, probably to our neighbours’ chagrin.

Busily.

A honeybee busily works a Purple Coneflower bloom in the front yard.

Glorious bloom.

Our Redbud tree was in glorious bloom. We are blessed to have such a lovely sight in our yard.

Cheery.

The sunflower adds a very cheery note to our vegetable garden.

What a treat!

Dinner: Fresh greens from our garden accompany a piece of savoury bread pudding. What a treat to have on December 10!

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Amazing

My sister-in-law has and tends an amazing flower garden. See for yourself.

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Flower

It’s a flower though it may not look like one.

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Bloom

It’s been a challenging spring for many of the living things in my part of the world. Much wetter than normal, cooler than normal. A lot of our plants have been slower to grow and to bloom than in past years. Climate change? Possibly. An anomalous spring, unusual but not unheard of? Possibly.

Whatever the reason, it only in late May that this iris in our back yard came into lovely bloom.

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Cheery

These dwarf daffodils add bright and cheery colour to our yard.

Good photo Faye!

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