This should be a fun year with the yard. Due to the downsizing of Hutchinson household finances and the increase in Jim's time at home with the new MUCH reduced commute, we ditched the lawn service and are going back to doing it ourselves. Now I'm very excited to get started, and frustrated that planting is done about a month later here than in Texas, so I still have to wait even though I'm ready to DO IT.
For now I have to be content with seeing what sprouts up that had been planted by previous owners, and really start thinking about what will be moved/yanked out/supplemented.
Our snowbells are the first thing to show up each year (as you can tell by the ragged look of these last remaining few). The biggest group of them is actually a strip that snakes into the back yard, left over from the incredibly overgrown beds that we yanked out when we moved in (we needed more grass in the yard for two kids and a dog). Each year I'd be surprised when they poked through and bloomed, but always missed relocating them because the lawn guys would show up and mow before I had a chance to dig them up. So this year I took a stab at moving them. Hopefully they will show back up next year in their new locations.
The crocuses are my other early bloomers. Just a few of them left in the beds to get pictures of.
The forsythia are blooming brightly all over town. This one is next to the corner of our house. We also have one in back and one right between our house and the neighbors.
Daffodils are in the middle of blooming right now. We have a lot of basic yellow ones.
We also have some of these really pretty lighter ones.
We have a scattering of these beautiful hyacinths.
And some fairly large mounds of grape hyacinths in various areas around the house.
And THIS was the bane of my existence on Sunday. All the darn leftover pokeyballs in the back yard. Very hard to get up - they like to just spring back away from you when you pull the rake over them. And I only did about a third of the yard. Tell me again why am I excited about this?
2 comments:
Because you have a gardener's soul.
Gorgeous and you will be much happier doing it yourself. I know I am.
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