I don't as a rule do flowers.
I've got two brown thumbs.
At our place in Spokane we had some great volunteer daffodils and tulips.
As long as they can take care of themselves...
But this year I threw some three-year-old seeds on the pile of well-composted manure up by the gate on the road. 
They came up! 
I pulled a few weeds (and probably a few flowers, too--that would be typical). 
They got watered with the pasture.
I particularly like the contrast of the orange poppies and the blue bachelor buttons.
If I'm lucky, maybe they'll self-seed for next year.
[Congratulations to Lucy and her mid-wives Jean and Sue, on ten adorable puppies.]
I've got two brown thumbs.
At our place in Spokane we had some great volunteer daffodils and tulips.
As long as they can take care of themselves...
But this year I threw some three-year-old seeds on the pile of well-composted manure up by the gate on the road. 
They came up! 
I pulled a few weeds (and probably a few flowers, too--that would be typical). 
They got watered with the pasture.
I particularly like the contrast of the orange poppies and the blue bachelor buttons.
If I'm lucky, maybe they'll self-seed for next year.[Congratulations to Lucy and her mid-wives Jean and Sue, on ten adorable puppies.]
fabulous!
ReplyDeleteJust absolutely gorgeous. Wish I could grow beds like that.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment on my blog about your mule. I love it, wish I could do something like you did with her too. That would be a blast.
Wow, Evensong, those flowers are wonderful! I tried planting wildseeds so many times in my pasture at the old place and on some recreational property I once owned and they never took.
ReplyDeleteI love flowers - and right now, pictures of flowers are even better as I don't have to deadhead them, water them, or do anything but enjoy them. Thank you.
Beautiful wildflowers, ES! And thanks for sharing the link to the omg-squeee-adorable puppies. I call very young puppies potato-puppies - they look like squishy little potatoes at that age. :3
ReplyDeleteStunning! Your seeds turned into a party in the manure!
ReplyDeleteI have no luck with flowers or bulbs either. I planted a bunch of bulbs a coujple years ago because everyone said ANYONE could grow flowers from bulbs. HAH!
Apparently not me!
Only a couple popped up and they were pretty scraggly at best.
Yours turned out lovely!
~Lisa