Weekend yard pix

[DP]

Spring is progressing and the butterfly garden in filling in. The iris are just now blooming and the wisteria is finally getting going although there are still no flowers. The little dots you see are maple helicopters. Seems they're making one year do for ten...
Here is the garden:



The veggie garden. My wife is beginning the task of planting there. The onions and chives are blooming and the strawberries have some fruit beginning. She has gotten some herbs going in the pots and the iris you see are just waiting to get planted elsewhere.



Here are the irises blooming (finally):



The wisteria filling in:



These are dwarf lilacs and this is the first year they've bloomed-maybe they needed some brutal cold to get them going!



The bouquet is fabulous. It seems more pungent than the native lilacs and we cut some flowers, put them in small bowls around the house.



The wrens have set up shop and I got a couple pix of one of them approaching their bird house. The are very wary so I had to be patient to get these:





Tx for looking...

[rgG]

Nice!
My 20 year old wisteria has never bloomed.

[DP]

rgG wrote:
Nice!
My 20 year old wisteria has never bloomed.

Funny you mention that. My MIL has one that has never bloomed either.

[WHiiP]

They don't bloom for wimmen . . . just saying' miley-shocked003:

[Jack D.]

My neighbor has one that looks like it has giant clusters of grapes hanging from it, beautiful! I dug mine out because after 12 years of cutting and pruning, it never bloomed. I thought I got a dud but non blooming wisteria sounds fairly common.

[DP]

Here's the wisteria from a year ago-16 May 2013. Big difference...

[OWC Jamie]

Jack D. wrote:
My neighbor has one that looks like it has giant clusters of grapes hanging from it, beautiful! I dug mine out because after 12 years of cutting and pruning, it never bloomed. I thought I got a dud but non blooming wisteria sounds fairly common.

Throw it in the woods and ignore it.
Stop fertilizing it.
Stop pruning it.
Stop pampering it.
It will bloom.
You'll need gallons of round-up to try to stop it.

[Lizabeth]

Wish I had a yard rather than a balcony and the hijacked common planter downstairs...I have ambitions of growing bush blueberries on the balcony.

I'll settle for basil and cherry tomatoes this year

[vision63]

Wow, what a big difference from the barren landscape you shared a couple of months ago. Very nice!

[freeradical]

Nice!

Everything is pretty much brown here in Sacramento now.