freethoughtandmetaphor

Many plants are blooming now.  There are still poppies.I expect this area to have more poppies next year.  The seeds have no place to go now that the plants have reached the wall.

This plant, whose name I cannot remember although I bought it, has dutifully bloomed all winter, but not so energetically as it is doing now.

The apache plume has begun to come out.  It’s named for its feathery seed heads, but the white flowers are much more visible.

Most of my gardening is in the back yard, where no one but me has much chance to see it, but this indian hawthorn that came with the house puts on a show for a brief time in spring.

And for an extra touch in the front yard I took the palm branch (it’s plastic) which was delivered from church with other materials to use for worship in holy week, and tied it to my front gate.

It blows nicely in the wind, but it may not be fit to return for reuse next year.