Yards in June
/There was a lot going on in yards in June. I enjoyed documenting my own yard and that of my daughter’s too.
The native plants in my yard are doing quite well: fragrant sumac (the first one I planted),
American spikenard (one that is a few years old and another than I planted this year),
Missouri evening primrose with its big yellow flowers,
Common Primrose that is becoming well established in my wildflower garden, and
Mushrooms keep coming up in the area where a tree was cut down several years before we bought the house.
My daughter and son-in-law planted some native plants in an area near their driveway and the street recently; they are thriving along with the yucca that has been there for a long time.
There are non-natives: daylilies in both yards,
Asian hydrangeas in her yard (that she generously cut for a bouquet now in my office window),
A very large Southern Magnolia in my daughter’s house,
Lambs ear – that bumblebees like when it is blooming at my house,
Roses and hostas at both houses!
I have arugula flowers since I didn’t start eating the leaves soon enough. Oh well – they attact some small pollinators. There are zinnia flowers nearby too.
We are both challenged with grass growing where we don’t want it…and some invasives like Asian bush and vine honeysuckles. I have a lot of tree seedlings to control too – particularly hackberry, mulberry, redbud, oak, and maple.
