Yard Happenings
Jun. 1st, 2006 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianMountain laurel blooms are open - bright pink, hundreds of them, all fairly smallish (1' high at most, for the most part.)
Musser Forests will definitely get repeat business. Maybe the previous vendor I used kept us conditioned to expect failure, but every single sycamore and winterberry holly has put on new growth. Yes, even the sycamore that had its entire root system eaten by chipmunks, toppled on its side for at least 24 hours, and had its self stuffed back in the dirt rather roughly by someone fed up with finding trees munched like that. It is now growing, somehow. I didn't expect the hemlocks to put new growth on this year - none of the previous ones did. Most of them now have new growth.
One of the apricot delight foxglove has bloomed, and one of the mixed foxglove is close.
Rachel saw a hummingbird at the feeder.
Lots of new growth on the stuff that was sprayed with Plantskydd - it left a black spotted coating, looks a bit ugly, and some things (elderberry and gingko, particularly.)
The grasses along Rachel River still look pretty scraggly, but that will improve as they fill in, and as some of the wild flowers start coming up. The meadow itself is in much the same state - some daisys, and some taller grass, but still none of the previously planted wildflower seeds (very few, scattered randomly) or the wild bergamot planted early this spring.
Quick thunderstorm came through earlier; forest smells great, refreshed.
Musser Forests will definitely get repeat business. Maybe the previous vendor I used kept us conditioned to expect failure, but every single sycamore and winterberry holly has put on new growth. Yes, even the sycamore that had its entire root system eaten by chipmunks, toppled on its side for at least 24 hours, and had its self stuffed back in the dirt rather roughly by someone fed up with finding trees munched like that. It is now growing, somehow. I didn't expect the hemlocks to put new growth on this year - none of the previous ones did. Most of them now have new growth.
One of the apricot delight foxglove has bloomed, and one of the mixed foxglove is close.
Rachel saw a hummingbird at the feeder.
Lots of new growth on the stuff that was sprayed with Plantskydd - it left a black spotted coating, looks a bit ugly, and some things (elderberry and gingko, particularly.)
The grasses along Rachel River still look pretty scraggly, but that will improve as they fill in, and as some of the wild flowers start coming up. The meadow itself is in much the same state - some daisys, and some taller grass, but still none of the previously planted wildflower seeds (very few, scattered randomly) or the wild bergamot planted early this spring.
Quick thunderstorm came through earlier; forest smells great, refreshed.
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Date: 2006-06-02 09:26 am (UTC)I always feel a little wierd doing that...But hey - live a little, right?
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Date: 2006-06-02 12:13 pm (UTC)Feel free to add me - I'll add you back! =)
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Date: 2006-06-02 12:37 pm (UTC)