Between flowers and the backyard animals, there’s a lot going on in the yard right now, so this week’s Thursday 13 is a little look around the yard.
1. We’ll start with some zinnias. I don’t think I’ve ever had zinnias before,
but this year, they’re one of my favorites.
2. Here’s
a closeup of one of them.
3. And
here’s the yellow one.
4. These
are all in pots on the front porch, along with a pink geranium.
5. There’s
also basil, that looked like this on Wednesday morning.
6. The
basil looked like this by Wednesday evening.
I have no proof, but I suspect the groundhogs feasted on the basil.
7. We also have a shepherd’s hook with two hanging baskets of petunias and a suet feeder in the front yard.
Here’s a closeup of the flowers.
The suet feeder
is very popular. It was eaten down this
much in just a little over twelve hours.
8. A
friend gave us these beautiful hydrangeas.
We have a white hydrangea, but I’ve wanted pink and blue ones for a
while, so I was very excited to get these.
We’re still deciding where we’re going to plant them.
9. Here’s
a closeup of the blooms.
10. I put
mums in the pots on the porch during the fall and two of them came back. I think of them as more of a fall flower, so
I moved both of them to this big pot. I’m
planning to tuck it in a corner of the backyard and hope that the mums are big
and blooming by the fall.
11. In the
backyard, the blackberry bush has lots of berries that aren’t quite ripe
yet.
12. There’s
also a second blackberry bush now. I
suspect the birds are responsible for planting this one, which I
appreciate.
13. And no yard tour would be complete without a groundhog
video, so here’s a video of one of our groundhogs enjoying a peanut butter
cracker.
What’s going on in your yard now?
