potato plant poking up

holy basil and peas in middle

Plants!

A month has gone by since my last post, but I feel like it has been much longer. May splashed in with dogwoods and tulips and an amazing azalea show! Three different pinks and a gorgeous white one lasted almost all month. It was so cool to watch the soil come alive and flowers and plants emerge. With all this rain and sun the plants are taking off, exploding with growth! That means all of the plants! It is all I can do to clip the seedheads off the thistles before they spread themselves, and ben can barely keep up with the grass. The garlic has been reaching upwards and has just sent its flower stalks up in a little curlie-cue. I have been repotting and transplanting and sowing seeds with whatever time I have. I took a week off to go to a botanical sanctuary in Ohio with my class and experience old growth stands of goldenseal and ginseng and black cohosh. I got to bring home some blue cohosh, black cohosh, goldenseal, and collinsonia plants to plant out here, as well as a ton of dried plants for making medicine. I came home with new eyes for plants and swimming with visions of future possibilities. It was a truly inspiring trip. I will be posting pics on here soon. Now the medicine wheel is halfway finished and ready to plant into. I have been planting slowly as the seedlings get old enough, hoping the deer won't choose this one as their favorite food. Won't be long now until the first flowers are ready for the bees!

spring babies

bees and thistles and beds

this is our number one weed! canada thistle
potato lasagna bed

old bookshelf turned into a lettuce bed
Bee boxes are set in place and ready for action!

spring medicines!

shepherd's purse
ground ivy
yarrow
asparagus
violets

spring flower surprises