Garden Updates

With all the rain we've been having, everything is very green. The perennials are sprouting up like crazy (as are the weeds, but we won't talk about those!).

Here is the deck landscaping that I put in last year. Everything came back and as you can see from the large plant (perennial bachelor's button) in front, some things are spreading maybe more than I intended. :)

 These are trilliums that my grandfather insisted I dig up from the family woods in Manitowoc last year. I thought it was unlikely they'd come back since we transplanted them in the middle of a drought and MG&E drove over them with heavy machinery in December before the ground was frozen. But they must be tougher than i gave them credit for. Trilliums start out with white flowers and then the flowers turn pink as they age (as this one is doing). Some wild leeks and trout lily are also in that clump.

 Last summer we noticed a couple morels growing near our woodland corner. This year i spotted just this one. We may or may not have unintentionally stepped on it. Whoops. I don't think we were going to eat it this year anyway, we'd rather it spread its spores.

 Here's our current vegetable garden. The closest bed has carrots, tomato plants, peas, and eggplants. Yum. In the middle bed you can see garlic on the right (planted last fall) and potatoes in the middle. The cucumbers will be on the left side. They're planted, but not sprouted. The farthest bed has a lot of the cole crops and leaf vegetables.

 Finally, here's Adam's new sci-fi garden. The small purple bush on the left side is a black lace elder. It will get much larger. The floppy leaves are giant alliums. I've also planted a 'Merlot' coneflower, some calamintha 'White Cloud' and some dahlias that have yet to poke their heads above ground.

Happy Spring!