Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden

[ysabetwordsmith]

I took pictures around the yard today. These are from the savanna and prairie garden.


Daffodils are blooming along the inside edge of the hedge at the west end of the savanna.




These are the bulblets that I dug out of the daffodil bed in fall. I wasn't sure they'd bloom this year, because most were pretty small. So far they all look like yellow trumpets.




Daffodils are blooming around the redbud tree in the savanna.




These are miniature daffodils that put out lots of tiny flowers.




The wildflower garden is greening up.




This Siberian squill is pink.




The penstemon is slowly reviving.




The prairie garden has daffodils blooming.




Some of the raspberries along the south edge of the prairie garden are starting to leaf out. These are wild black raspberries.




Snowdrops are almost done blooming. They haven't set many seeds this year because there weren't many insects around while they bloomed.

Comments

[shirebound]

Oh, I need to check on my raspberry bush! It's probably too early for leaves in this part of the country, though.

Awwww, bulblets. Your gardens are wonderfully diverse.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Oh, I need to check on my raspberry bush! It's probably too early for leaves in this part of the country, though.<<

It's way early here too. Lots of stuff is leafing out or blooming early. The apricot tree bloomed today and was full of bees. The bluebells have buds on them and usually they don't bloom until Beltane.

>> Awwww, bulblets. Your gardens are wonderfully diverse.<<

Scroll down and you can see some discussion with someone else about the different areas in my yard.

[emeraldarrows]

Lovely! <3

[kaishin108]

You have such lovely different areas of your garden. All the flowers popping up, so uplifting. I really like the layout of your wildflower garden.

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> You have such lovely different areas of your garden.<<

I have about 2 acres of rural land.

The yard by the house and the south lot are the main spaces of actual lawn, where lawn means "whatever low-growing green stuff survives mowing and foot traffic." That includes multiple types of lawn grass, white and yellow clovers, broad and narrow plantains, dandelions, violets where it's shadier, and so on. So it's not the barren monoculture as usual, and hosts plenty of wildlife.

The streetside yard is the forest yard with lots of trees and bushes. The Midwinter Grove is between the driveway and the savanna. The savanna has grass with some trees and shrubs in it, along with the wildflower garden. The prairie garden is most of the north yard, with a berry patch at the western end.

The ritual meadow is to the east and has the firepit. The orchard is also part of the east.

Having many different areas of habitat increases the diversity of wildlife supported. In my permaculture scheme, wildlife constitutes both "a yield" (because I enjoy watching it) and "a resource" (for instance, honeybees are pollinating my flowers while I sit on my ass instead of running about with a paintbrush).

>> All the flowers popping up, so uplifting.<<

Spring is exciting because something new blooms or leafs out almost every day. :D I like walking around to see the changes. Yesterday the apricot tree just had buds, today there are flowers!

>> I really like the layout of your wildflower garden.<<

Thanks. I use logs from the yard to define the border. Inside that, the spring bulbs are planted around the edges. Toward the middle are wildflowers. There's a good bit of echinacea and yellow coneflower that hasn't even sprouted yet, spiderwort, blackberry lily, wild onions, mountain mint, and the penstemon. Much of the grass is northern sea oats with its dancing seedheads in late summer to fall.

Re: Thank you!

[kaishin108]

Your planning is impressive. I sure love wild oats. We used to have those on a large piece of property inland from San Diego. I just don't see them around here. But I just looked up Northern Sea Oats, those look very special, how lovely!

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

From a previous year, you can see green heads on the northern sea oats in some of these pictures:
https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/13449884.html

Re: Thank you!

[kaishin108]

How beautiful!

[adafrog]

Pretty.

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm glad you liked these. :D