This
shot shows the success of transplanting my father's weirdly placed
group of 'flowering onions'. I have no idea whether or not they are
edible or flowers from onion-like bulbs, merely that that is what he
called them. he expected them to surface and shoot into big purple
floral heads each year - but - for some strange reason - placed them
in his veggie plot area. I therefore dug them out and transplanted
them as soon as the yard became mine.
Above
you can see the back yard. Whether you view it as a beautiful array
of natural over growth, a combination of wildness and man-made areas,
or a mess depends on your viewpoint. My father would have had a total
fit, much preferring neatness to naturalness. Now the property
belongs to me and I prefer nature to 'show garden' neatness.
While
I do plan to 'trim' the grass that has grown around the bird bath and
my veg plots and use the cuttings for my compost, I have no intention
of pruning the giant cooking apple tree more than once every 5 years,
no intention of cutting back the giant holly that overhangs from next
door, no intention of chopping out - thought I may cut back - the
tree with pinky-mauve conical blossoms, and no intention of creating
a show garden. I like the way bluebells pop up around the bird bath,
the apple tree and holly/mauve-tree blend together, and honeysuckle
falls over the fence as a backdrop to my veg plot.
That
last shot is an update on my vegetables. It also shows how the
flowering onions are about to flower and a small row of 'somethings'
that blend in with the grass. Those somethings have come up this
year - but were planted last year. Therefore, I cannot recall what
they are. From the growth so far I assume them to be chive, spring
onion, or onion...probably spring onion... I shall wait and see. This
photo also shows clearer the grass patch that I aim to snip into
submission shortly.
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