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!
Evening Primrose
Category: Flora
Prickly pear
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!
Spring flowers
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.
Fun Guy
Oh it has been wet. On our walks in the woods we have seen so many more mushrooms; some we have never spotted before! Like the Urnula (like urn or bowl) in two different colors, no less!
It is amazing what we can see when we stop and look.
More signs of spring
We have grape hyacinths and wild plum trees blooming!
Critters and Craft 