End of May in the Garden

Clematis in Bloom

Some, but not all, of the clematis around the yawd.

By "kennel" door

 SE garage corner

 South fencerow

 1st bloom- West Gate

 2nd year-Big garden entranceway

The Big Garden

Sweet potato patch- Row 2

 Burgundy Pole Beans- Row 2

 Squash Cage & pepper plants- Row 4

 Row 3

 Blue Potato flowers

 View of Rows 1-3

 View of Rows 3-5

 Planted basil between tomato cages

Also planted zinnias & salvias in these gaps

Critters

Kiki with plants going to streetscaping

 Potato bug on potato leaf

Foodstuff

Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Lamb's Quarter Pie (both from garden)

and roasted white beans

 Strawberry Freezer jam (from Holly's garden)

 Asparagus curry

 Sesame Tofu (broc from Scharf's)

Propagation

Cuttings: L to R: Catmint, Black & Blue Salvia, Clematis, 

Hydrangea, Sedum

 Milkweed seedlings

Fruits and Flowers

Unknown, but delicious Roses

along South fencerow

 Just ate a couple Black Raspberries today!

Hardy Kiwi vine

Currants

Poppy

Another Poppy

Garden Art and Junk

 Cultivator "flower"

 

The found headboard project

(w/Chuy Sanchez)

The vent whirligig and a beer to celebrate

That's all folks!

Natives in Bloom/Fruit

I would really like to "bioblitz" my yard- identify as many of all species and keep a record. I'd probably start with trees (the fewest) and work my way down to herbaceous plants (being the most). I'd also like to do other things- mammals to invertebrates. I suppose blogging is close enough for now. I'm posting twice today- once on natives and another on the garden.

Long-sepal Penstemon

Penstemon calycosus

 Grey's Sedge

Carex grayi

 Downy Wood Mint

Blephilia ciliata

 Serviceberry

Amelanchier (need to look into species)

 Scarlet Honeysuckle

Lonicera sempervirens

 Virginia Sweetspire

Itea virginica

 Butterflyweed

Asclepias tuberosa

with Milkweed bug

 Indian pink

Spigelia marilandica

 Carolina Lupine

Thermopsis villosa

 Scarlet Elderberry

Sambucus racemosa

 Path Rush

Juncus tenius

April Wildflower Hike- Salt Lick

It appears the nights of frost are behind us. We had two the week of April 15th (our last expected frost day) and this week's forecast appears to be days in the 70s and nights in the 50s. I was itching for a hike to see the spring wildflowers. We decided on Salt Lick Point Nature Preserve in Valmeyer, Monroe County, Illinois as it was close and we could spend some time in the yard and Sean could work on the bees.

So- what was in bloom on Saturday April 16th? These are the highlights, in order along the following route: parking lot, Salt Lick Trail to Newman Trail to Johnson Trail and back to parking lot.

Nesting sight of Swallows- Cliff Swallows?

Erigeron pulchellus- Robin's Plantain 

Packera pseudotomentosa

Camassia- Wild Hyacinth

White Blue-eyed grass- Sisyrinchium

Jack in the Pulpit

Yellow Violet

Spring Beauties

Fragile Fern

Wild Larkspur- Delphinium

Goldenseal

Hydrophyllum (canadense?) Waterleaf

Dutchman's Breeches

Waterleaf

Trillium, Geranium

False Anemone

Corydalis

Waterleaf

Buutercup species?

Bluebells

Johnson's Trail

Bloodroot

The bees were all over it.