Backyard Remembrances

This post will be about our backyard flowers, but I know that you'd miss the selfie, so let's do that first. Some styles won't do two people in one shot, so I blended to photos together to keep up the meme.

The myosotis or forget-me-nots are in bloom. I try to get a photograph every year although I'm pretty sure I didn't bother last year as I was still in recovery from my double hernia surgery.

It's an old old story for some of you, but here it is again, in brief.

My dad planted a few of these flowers in our garden about 40 years ago in our place across the province. Some descendant plants were brought here and almost 40 generations later, Dad's forget-me-nots help us to remember. We shake the plants around every year when the go to seed to keep them coming back.

I have lots of closeup photos from previous years, so I just went out back and took a few quick photos of the big drift near the fence.

Our lilac bush is in bloom.

We have only one annual plant so far. It was a Mothers Day gift.

The hostas are coming along. There are several out front, but this one in the back was here when we arrived 15 years ago. We have transplanted it to a different spot, and it has thrived, but why do I want to write, thriven?

There is a mostly unmaintained easement outside our fence although I do mow it a few times a year. I opened the gate for a quick shot but it was buggy, so I didn't linger. Those are more forget-me-nots in the background. They got there on their own, fecund little blighters that they are. But you can't beat dandelions for fecundity, can you?

In front, the few tulips we had are already in rapid decline, so I won't bother taking any front yard photographs for now. It is more of a summer garden, so perhaps in future.

We just got some bedding plants put in. Our neighbour volunteered to shop for us if we would give her a list of what we wanted. We've been fortunate to be helped by various people during this time.