Spring time arrives with a variety of colors as in the following pictures.
Spring Colors
Category: blossoms
Paw Paw blooms
The paw paw trees are covered with blooms this year. Even trees with small diameter trunks have more blooms than they can possibly produce fruit. If only ten percent of the blooms produce fruit, there would be more fruit than in any of the previous seven years. The following pictures show the mass of purple blooms which are about one inch in diameter.
And, the first tick of Spring arrived on April 11, can Summer be far behind?
March Blooms
The early daffodils peeked out above ground the first days of March and survived the snowfall that occurred few days later.
After the snow melted they continued to grow.
Then, in late March they bloomed!
Mary had a field of gold ……
Mary had a field of gold,
Anywhere Mary went, the gold was sure to glow,
And the color was so bold, that butterflies would soon follow.
Nekkid Ladies Return Right on Time
Although the timing of events this year has been somewhat different than previous years, the pink ladies came back this Summer right on schedule at the end of July/beginning of August. Here is a photo of a populated fence row.
And, here are a couple more photos.
Mullein Pest
Back in June when the mullein plants popped up, most of the heads were affected by some kind of bug that chomped away on the head and some of the top leaves. Here are two photos.
A more normal mullein head would be like the following.
Spring Flowers
Even after the dearth of April showers there are some May flowers. Rain during the cold month of April was less than one inch, but, it has rained almost six inches in May.
Here are some beautiful May flowers.
First Easter flower, Spring – 2018
On February 28 the first greenery of flower leaves poked up above the leaf mulch along the fence line. Then on March 15 the first Easter flower bloomed.
And many of its neighbors were about to bloom.
Only a few days later on March 18 that single flower had lots of company.
Many of the other flowers along the fence are awake and growing.
Cover Test Strips
Various seeds were sown in test strips to see how they grow. In the following picture the strips from right to left are:
– Buckwheat (already dropped blooms)
– Pearl Millet
– Sunflowers
– Sudangrass
– flax(hidden behind the sudangrass)
The shorter flax is hidden by the row of sudangrass. Here is a picture of the pretty blue flax blooms:
All test strips were sown on July 12. The buckwheat started blooming after 30 days. After 59 days the sunflowers were in peak bloom.
and the butterflies, bees, etc were all around
Here is the strip of pearl millet.
Here is the strip of buckwheat after the blooms are gone.
More Weeds
The previous posting on weeds showed weeds blooming in Summer and Fall. This posting shows weeds blooming early in the year – March, April, and May.
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