A Quick Peek Into the Backyard

The continual rain has made it very hard to keep the lawn tidy. It’s never good to mow wet grass, but with a reel mower, it’s virtually impossible. Fortunately everything else has been very lush, even if a little behind schedule, for the same reason. Here is the entry into my backyard from the driveway.

Plants in bloom and almost in bloom, clockwise from the left: kousa dogwood, Amsonia (a few, just barely in the frame on the right), white peonies in full bud, alpine columbines, and Baptisia australis in full bud point right back to the dogwood. Photographed on June 2, 2019.

Late spring and early summer flowers are beginning to show, while the early spring flowers are producing seed, including one of next year’s weeding projects—silver maple seedlings. I can reduce the number of seedlings by raking soon, but I will not get them all.