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For all my whining and complaining about the weeds, the relatively moist start to the year has had a salubrious effect on the flowers, too. There has been a steady parade starting with the apricot trees in February. The iris that Genna planted around the place bloom at different times. The plantings I’ve done around 1911 are several years old now and really are showy. That is most gratifying. The new bed, or should I say the improvements, I did in the lily pool area on the south side of 2005 are finished and I’ve planted a few drought-tolerant plants in it though it will be a year at least before the show up much.
Still, trying to keep the weeds from seeding out and the grass mowed keeps me hopping. Joyce helped me mow down the wild onions in the pasture. We used Dad’s old Sears push mower and bag the cuttings. The idea is to catch the onions late enough to keep their seeds from scattering but too late for them to throw up new blossoms after we mow. By the early summer, the onion plants completely disappear as they die back and I mow the pasture. We are trying hard to contain them in the pasture and keep their wild growth from spreading to the rest of the place. After mowing them, we sprayed with some stuff the nursery recommended. We tried that last year with a different product but weren’t sure it made any difference. Maybe we’ll have a better result this time.