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The Iris
The Iris bloom opened the other day. It’s very beautiful. I took some photos of it, so when I get them back, and provided one is suitably nice enough, I’ll post it here.
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Irises
We planted some Irises last Spring, and they’ve grown nicely, just never flowered. I’m excited now, finally, one is showing a flower, close to opening! None of the other Irises are even forming one. It’s a beautiful deep iris blue … I’ll try and get a picture of it, when it opens, here.
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Sunflowers
We have new sunflowers coming up. The leaves on a few have divided at least thrice, so they are in the process of putting down good roots. Several new sunflower plants have just sprouted as well. These are the same as the picture below. Black Oil Sunflowers, from the birdfeeder.
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Into Spring I leap!
I was outside in the wonderful Spring sunshine today. I pulled weeds a lot. Also helped plant some trees. The trees were planted mostly by my husband. The sun was so intoxicating, made me rather want to just sit on the ground and soak it up, while wearing a wide-brimed hat, of course. We have…
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Plants are doing their thing
I’ve not posted much here lately. I’ve been preoccupied with some things … and just not thinking of anything to write. It’s now Spring here where we live. Warm temperatures in the day, and above Freezing at night-time. The weeds are all growing. And “real” plants too. Trees are budding. Just the beginning of budding,…