In My Yard Today

I have a big backblog of flower/yard pictures I haven't gotten around to post. I keep thinking I need to do a massive catch-up. But I'm not going to. This is today's flowers. Just today.

Kelly gave me some "blue chivey things" ~ better known as allium azureum, which is now blooming. I need to weed away some of the foxglove to give it a little more space to be seen. I like the color, it is very similar to my squill. The first picture is without the flash and shows the color a little better.

I also have lots of daisies

and was surprised to see a splash of red in one of my overgrown jungle areas:

Turns out there are some nice wild roses blooming there!

This first one is a little out of focus but shows the bud color better. The second is a little overexposed, but you can see spider web strands on the bud:

Also near here I found baby wild plums:

All around my yard is the lovely but slightly poisonous nightshade. It's not the really deadly one. And it's really hard to get rid of. But the flowers are pretty neat when you look close:

And out front is looking shaggy and overgrown (because it is) but I do have a lot of foxglove about to bloom, and for a few days when it blooms it will be beautiful. Until it rains and it all gets knocked down and looks weedy and overgrown again.

I took a picture of how weedy the front looks, but it actually looked okay in the picture because The Grand Lunar mowed yesterday and tidied up the edge of the chaos. And I figured you didn't really want to see it anyway. It's hard to be the only house on the block that's not nicely landscaped. But oh well. As Kelly has showed me, even a weedy overgrown yard looks beautiful up close!