Photos: New Rocks
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birdfeedingToday I planted most of my new rocks! \o/ I'm waiting to sink the pink mica rock until I get a second one to point the other direction along the road, to catch headlights from both ways.
The house yard has greened up considerably since the rain last night.
The rain garden is blooming beautifully. Some of the solid purple crocuses have come in. Leaves of heuchera (upper right corner, purple) and columbine (center, creamy green) are more visible too.
The goddess garden has new flowers blooming.
Winter aconite has come late to the party. Often it's the first thing blooming.
The orange crocuses have started to bloom. They were more open earlier in the day, but close quickly on a cloudy day.
I have installed the fossil rock in the forest garden.
Here is a closer view of the fossil rock. You can see that I've buried the bottom quarter to third of it.
This is a closeup of the fossil. It may be a leaf, a fan coral, or something else.
Bluebells are sprouting in the forest garden. Their leaves look almost purple at this early stage. This is the first wildflower to emerge.
In the cistern garden, chives are sprouting.
These are perennial leeks. I got them from the Charleston Food Forest.
French sorrel is well up and almost big enough to harvest. I love this stuff; it has a bright lemon flavor.
I seated the new cobblestones around the purple-and-white garden.
These are the new cobblestones.
I also adjusted some of the older stones to make a more coherent border.
The house yard has greened up considerably since the rain last night.
The rain garden is blooming beautifully. Some of the solid purple crocuses have come in. Leaves of heuchera (upper right corner, purple) and columbine (center, creamy green) are more visible too.
The goddess garden has new flowers blooming.
Winter aconite has come late to the party. Often it's the first thing blooming.
The orange crocuses have started to bloom. They were more open earlier in the day, but close quickly on a cloudy day.
I have installed the fossil rock in the forest garden.
Here is a closer view of the fossil rock. You can see that I've buried the bottom quarter to third of it.
This is a closeup of the fossil. It may be a leaf, a fan coral, or something else.
Bluebells are sprouting in the forest garden. Their leaves look almost purple at this early stage. This is the first wildflower to emerge.
In the cistern garden, chives are sprouting.
These are perennial leeks. I got them from the Charleston Food Forest.
French sorrel is well up and almost big enough to harvest. I love this stuff; it has a bright lemon flavor.
I seated the new cobblestones around the purple-and-white garden.
These are the new cobblestones.
I also adjusted some of the older stones to make a more coherent border.
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Date: 2025-03-17 08:53 pm (UTC)I can't get over the way you guys refer to your garden as a "yard"! To us, a yard is hard-surfaces, and usually quite small!
The orange crocus is gorgeous!
Thoughts
Date: 2025-03-17 09:30 pm (UTC)That's where the head-and-shoulders statue of the Earth Goddess goes in warm weather. I bring it indoors for winter so it's not there now. This post from last spring shows the statue.
>> I can't get over the way you guys refer to your garden as a "yard"! To us, a yard is hard-surfaces, and usually quite small! <<
The whole yard is about 2 acres. Whether all of it is garden depends on your definition. It's all laissez-faire permaculture. There are some patches of lawn grass like the house yard and south lot. There are flower beds, the mini-guilds under some trees, and then specific things like the barrel garden, cistern garden, etc. that are more defined.
>> The orange crocus is gorgeous! <<
Whoops, I forgot to link that: ,a href="https://www.brecks.com/products/orange_monarch_snow_crocus">Breck's Orange Monarch. It's a favorite.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2025-03-18 11:15 am (UTC)