Every Spring, Trent and I look back and laugh about how much we dreaded the day we would have to work in the yard. Now we bicker about mulch and the proper green/brown/wet/dry ratios of compost. How many little oak trees growing from the abundance of acorns can we leave in the front bushes (me: all of them) and how many should we pull out (Trent: most, but he gave in to leaving them all.) My plan is to eventually pull the biggest few into pots, then the biggest and strongest from the pots into the backyard.
We have two thriving, little avocado trees, started from avocado pits. The process of getting them to grow, including failures, took a year. I hope they make it.
Trent made two bird houses out of gourds, which, to prevent nauseating swinging in the wind, have been tied more closely to the branches since this photo was taken.
We were excited to see the first ever buds on the grapefruit tree, which turned into flowers. Bees visited, and now very tiny grapefruits are starting to grow.
The same process is occurring for our newly planted Satsuma.
My brother gave us a bag of daffodil bulbs for Christmas, and I quickly planted them all one day in between Christmas and New Year’s. Each one grew into one beautiful flower. That was it, so I guess that’s the way bulbs work. But next year they will come back and multiply…?
That is either a palm tree starting to grow from a seed that fell from one of our trees, or it’s a weed. We moved it to a pot to see what happens.
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