First flowers of the year! (What pretty thing did you see in the garden today?)

Smart girl Heather, you fenced in your garden!  I have gardens everywhere. Trying to keep the chickens and guineas out is a losing battle.

Hahah,  the fence is mostly to keep the dogs from trampling straight through it while chasing their frisbee or ball LOL.   Otherwise I'd never get to see a tulip before it got snapped off!

Funny you say that Heather since I have a frisbee dog too. Australian Shepherd, I got him as a puppy. It was spring and I taught him right away about flowers. He steps over them or around them!  At least I won’t throw the frisbee into the daffodils!  That was 8 years ago and he hasn’t broken a flower since!  One smart pooch!  

Native camassia flowering all over our property right now. Beautiful.

Stacy Witscher wrote:Native camassia flowering all over our property right now. Beautiful.

Ooh I've been drooling over all the "lakes" of blue-ish purple that are everywhere in my town right now. Everywhere except my neighborhood. 😢 I've been trying to memorize where some of the biggest sites are right next to the public roads so I can (responsibly and legally) collect seeds and hopefully get them growing at my house.

Jenny - Camassia are bulbs. They likely produce seed, but it will take years to get a flower from them. You can purchase bulbs from bulb companies like Scheepers.

Natchez blackberries planted inside this little half-size greenhouse with 4-foot walls (plus "roof");  they make huge blossoming arcs.

Stacy Witscher wrote:Jenny - Camassia are bulbs. They likely produce seed, but it will take years to get a flower from them. You can purchase bulbs from bulb companies like Scheepers.

Yes they are bulbs but they also grow from seed. It takes 3-4 years to get flowers from seed. Rather than dig up bulbs from the wild, I figure it will be less disruptive to the land to collect seeds, especially as they have been over harvested in our area  in the past. I tried to find someone to let me dig up a few bulbs from their lawn but found no volunteers. I know I can find them online but I want to have the local wild ones and I don't know for sure what I would be getting online. Always preferable to go local when possible! 😊