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<\/a><\/p>\nWe have four crows that hang out around the yard.\u00a0 We believe two are the parents and two are year-old youngsters.\u00a0 \u00a0We can only tell one of them from the others because she has a deformed bill.\u00a0 We feed them every day (dog food) and they let us know when they want something.\u00a0 I\u2019m impressed with how well crows have adapted to urban environments.\u00a0 They are incredibly smart and fun to watch.<\/p>\n
We have a window box on the side of the house.\u00a0 One of the snapdragons from last year\u2019s seed-starting efforts wintered over well and is getting set to bloom.\u00a0 I added a Nemesia from the Fred Meyers trip brother Tim and I took several weeks back.<\/p>\n I forgot that I tucked some Ornithogalum nutans\u00a0bulbs in some of the pots around the house.\u00a0 You can\u2019t tell it from this bad photo, but the flowers are quite pretty and large.<\/p>\n Some shots of the orchard garden now, including wallflowers, tulips and bleeding hearts in the bed in front of the woodland garden.<\/p>\n Another view.<\/p>\n I had purchased dozens of tulips for the Armando parking strip garden, but the ground wasn\u2019t ready for them last fall, so I plugged them in around the garden.\u00a0 They are all viridiflora\u00a0types, with green in the petals.\u00a0 They are showy and elegant and really add to the May garden.<\/p>\n These white\/green tulips light up the Doug fir\u00a0bed.<\/p>\n More tulips in the Doug fir\u00a0bed.<\/p>\n This one has very little green.<\/p>\n These are next to the house, near a downspout by the lilac shrub.<\/p>\n The bluebells are blooming right alongside the tulips\u2013they make a nice duo.<\/p>\n Tulip hosting a bindweed!\u00a0 The gorgeous flower overcomes the poor background in this photo.<\/p>\n More tulips.<\/p>\n And one last indulgence.<\/p>\n The Lamiums have never looked so good!\u00a0 And on both sides of the path\u2026so rare to have great foliage and flowers.<\/p>\n More tulips.\u00a0 Leon cut the lawn this week and it makes a nice backdrop.<\/p>\n Another view.<\/p>\n The bleeding hearts are blooming big in the orchard garden.\u00a0 This one from sister Cate is getting really large\u2013close to three feet tall and wide.<\/p>\n Geranium phaeum blooming in the driveway bed.\u00a0 This gorgeous, carefree plant comes up through its shorter neighbors and blooms for a few weeks, then disappears quietly.<\/p>\n Not a great photo, but you can get a sense of the volume of flowers.\u00a0 This is a great year for this plant\u2013maybe twice as many flowers as last year.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A lone tulip survivor which is several years old.\u00a0 Tulips don\u2019t perennialize easily in my garden, but a few of them survive and thrive.<\/p>\n I was ready to rip out the bearded iris in the driveway bed.\u00a0 They are such a pain, with weeds and grass in-between the rhizomes and they haven\u2019t been blooming well.\u00a0 They must have sensed my threats, as this year there are 15 or more flower spikes!\u00a0 That\u2019s far more than we\u2019ve ever had before.<\/p>\n More tulip views.<\/p>\n And another.<\/p>\n Aronia flowers in the orchard garden.<\/p>\n The lilacs are blooming and scenting the entire yard.<\/p>\n Columbine seedling.\u00a0 The flower color is almost too dark, but there is a grace to these plants that I adore.<\/p>\n Abutilons blooming in the orchard bed.\u00a0 These are three-year-old seedlings.\u00a0 The plants need to be pruned or staked or something, but I can\u2019t complain about the flowers\u2013the cultivar is Suntense.<\/p>\n Another view.<\/p>\n And another\u2026.<\/p>\n The berries are blooming and I saw a lot of native pollinators around them.<\/p>\n I\u2019m very impressed with these Geranium plants.\u00a0 Grown from seeds two years ago, they were kind of spindly last year, but this year they are boisterous and bloomiferous.\u00a0 You can see all the buds next to the flowers.<\/p>\n You can see how big these Geraniums are this year, close to two feet tall!\u00a0 They are officially Geranium pyrenaicum \u201cSummer Snow\u201d.<\/p>\n There is a lot to not like about this weedy Lonicera, but I\u2019ve kept one hoping the flowers are useful to birds and bees.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have any fragrance, so they aren\u2019t much use to me.<\/p>\n Another view of an Abutilon.<\/p>\n I won\u2019t get my hopes too high, but the cherry tree has approximately one jillion cherries on it right now.\u00a0 I need to get some netting over it ASAP.<\/p>\n I liked the way this bleeding heart looked against the fence\/trellis.<\/p>\n I grew this Iris siberica from seed.\u00a0 I thought it was going to be \u201cLilting Laura,\u201d but the color is wrong.\u00a0 I\u2019m thrilled that it is blooming for the first time this year.\u00a0 I started it four years ago, I think.<\/p>\n Close-up of bleeding heart flowers.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Things have been really busy, but I had a chance to take some photos in the yard today and plan to add more entries this weekend.\u00a0 The weather was gorgeous and the garden is full of wonderful things. 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