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These are more yard pictures from today, showing some of my other projects. See the New Rocks too.

This is the barrel garden. The two pots on top are crosne knotroots sunning themselves.

This is the barrel garden. The two pots on top are crosne knotroots sunning themselves.

This stepping stone lies near the barrel garden. It had moved surprisingly far from where I originally put it, and somehow managed to crawl halfway under the concrete blocks.

Egyptian walking onions are starting to green up in their pot. I added a little extra potting soil on top to fill in where it had sunk over the winter.

This is the trough pot. Without drainage holes at the bottom, it never grew much. So I figure that I'll just let it hold water, for the tree frogs who like to hang out in the plants atop the old picnic table. I've added a sycamore branch and a couple of brick pieces so critters can get in and out easily.

I climbed onto the bench to get this view looking down into the trough pot.

In this closeup, you can see the brick pieces that I used to secure the branch. They were just hanging out in the yard near the picnic table. I put the mossy one on top.

Flowers are blooming under the maple tree.

The daffodils have just started opening.

Sprouts are showing under the apricot sapling that holds the fly-through feeder.

This is a peony shoot. They are dark reddish-purple at first and look like weird alien appendages reaching up out of the earth.

A couple days ago, I put tubs over some flats of seed pots to serve as greenhouses.

Hey, presto! The first two Shithouse Marigolds have sprouted. This proves the concept both for starting seeds in outdoor pots, and for using plastic tubs as greenhouses.