Yard Pictures: House Yard and Orchard
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common_natureSaturday was sunny, so I took lots of pictures. These are from the house yard and orchard. See the forest garden and herb gardens, south lot and west edge, forest yard and wagonwheel garden, savanna and prairie garden, and ritual meadow and flowerbeds.
The barrel garden is in the middle of the yard.
Tulips are budding around the base.
The goddess garden has a few bronze crocus still blooming.
Daffodils are blooming under the mulberry tree.
These are double daffodils in peach and white. They're not very good for pollinators, because the wad of ruffles makes it hard to reach nectar or pollen, but they are pretty.
This is an orange-cupped daffodil.
Mixed grape hyacinths are blooming in front of the hollow logs.
This view shows the many colors.
These are blue and lavender.
These are blue and white.
Here's a closeup of the white ones.
Daffodils and crocus are blooming around the black walnut tree. Violets are beginning to form drifts in the grass, though still not fully developed.
This yellow crocus is still blooming under the walnut.
Plum blossoms are almost done.
One of the volunteer pear trees is starting to bloom. There are least a couple of these. The cooking pear tree is blooming too, but hidden behind other branches.
The Criterion apple tree is leafing out.
The pie cherry grove is budding.
Violets carpet much of the orchard.
Elderberries are leafing out. These are volunteers, likely planted by birds. They make a charming understory in the orchard.
This is the cooking pear in bloom.
The rain garden is mostly columbine at the moment.
The picnic table holds a container garden.
This might be bergamot.
This might be yarrow.
The barrel garden is in the middle of the yard.
Tulips are budding around the base.
The goddess garden has a few bronze crocus still blooming.
Daffodils are blooming under the mulberry tree.
These are double daffodils in peach and white. They're not very good for pollinators, because the wad of ruffles makes it hard to reach nectar or pollen, but they are pretty.
This is an orange-cupped daffodil.
Mixed grape hyacinths are blooming in front of the hollow logs.
This view shows the many colors.
These are blue and lavender.
These are blue and white.
Here's a closeup of the white ones.
Daffodils and crocus are blooming around the black walnut tree. Violets are beginning to form drifts in the grass, though still not fully developed.
This yellow crocus is still blooming under the walnut.
Plum blossoms are almost done.
One of the volunteer pear trees is starting to bloom. There are least a couple of these. The cooking pear tree is blooming too, but hidden behind other branches.
The Criterion apple tree is leafing out.
The pie cherry grove is budding.
Violets carpet much of the orchard.
Elderberries are leafing out. These are volunteers, likely planted by birds. They make a charming understory in the orchard.
This is the cooking pear in bloom.
The rain garden is mostly columbine at the moment.
The picnic table holds a container garden.
This might be bergamot.
This might be yarrow.
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Date: 2022-04-18 08:51 am (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2022-04-19 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-18 10:55 am (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2022-04-19 08:16 am (UTC)We have 2 acres. ;) It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Part of that is because it has a number of natural divisions, and different habitats in some of those.
>> Did you plant the orchard, or was it there when you bought the land? <<
My parents started it when I was little. I have subsequently planted other trees. I think the last of the original orchard is the cooking pear tree. But there was a big old apricot tree on the south side of the house when we moved in, long gone now. Fruit trees don't live as long as many other trees do.
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Date: 2022-04-18 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-18 06:01 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2022-04-18 06:43 pm (UTC)I think the doubles are pretty, but they're hard for pollinators to navigate. I rarely plant them on purpose, but they come in some of the mixes that I love to buy. These pink-and-white ones are spectacular. I also have solid yellow ones blooming in the prairie garden and got pictures of those recently, but the batch of pictures was so big that I'm having to break it up by sections.
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Date: 2022-04-18 07:34 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2022-04-18 07:49 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm very pleased with them. I think I planted them last fall.
>> Everything else is lovely too -- here in Minnesota we have snowdrops and a lot of very suspicious, cautious scilla shoots, because it's been unseasonably cold <<
Twice I've seen snowflakes this April, though they didn't stick. O_O That wasn't normal even 30+ years ago when this was Zone 5b instead of 6a.
>> but the I've never seen crocuses like that before.<<
There are several varieties of bronze crocus. These have brown streaks on the outsides of the petals, and another kind is almost all brown outside. If I remember right, these are Orange Monarch.
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Date: 2022-04-19 02:24 am (UTC)