This is Sophie’s meadow. She likes to hang out there and seems to be the queen of this space since I rarely see other female cats there. Or maybe she is more confident out in the open because she has the best camouflage in the neighborhood. I just had to take her picture as she stood in the cut daisies (yellow), hedge parsley (white), and Indian blankets (red and orange).
Well, it is not a basket of flowers on your step, but here is a picture of a pretty bunch of flowers from my meadow to you. Happy May first!
We have a nice little patch of evening primrose in the meadow that has returned. It looks like some of the other wildflowers have reseeded themselves as well, which is ideal!
I found some prickly pear cactus growing in our back woods a while back. I cleared off the branches that blocked the sun and was rewarded this spring with new growth on the cactus! Several of our neighbors have large impressive cactus plants in their yards. I’m hoping to cultivate our own, and I feel I have a better chance encouraging already existing plants than planting new!
I no longer need to have spring flower envy for my neighbor’s beautiful bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, and forsythia. We have our own flowers! And it really isn’t surprising that it is all the shade flowers: columbine and shamrock. Our property is very shaded. We have crossvine too, which does fine in shade, but better in sun. We do have some honeysuckle blooming, some speedwell, and a daisy that my youngest picked out two years ago that turns out to be a perennial. It will be interesting to see how the meadow does. I seeded bluebonnets, but we had only a couple flower this year. I didn’t reseed any other flowers, so we are looking to see what reseeded itself. The columbines in the front bed have done a great job of reseeding, and may manage to take over the whole bed eventually, which would be awesome.
Critters and Craft 