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The past few days have been yellow-themed but not the sweet buttery yellow of lemon curd and stoneware bowls. This yellow is more the weedy yellow of waning vegetation.
There are tiny yellow clover flowers hiding in the yard and strange dandelion variants littering the edges. There is even a large, bold weed that sprang up overnight near the black-eyed susans and is shyly hiding soft star flowers under its leaves. Two late coreopsis flowers are tangled in their own foliage. Two days ago, I saw a little, rare yellow bird flitting on the neighbor’s fence and watched it nervously circle from fence to post to fence across the street then back again.
Fiona found fistfuls of yellow flowers and decorated the bushes. I made a braid of chartreuse bishop’s goutweed to deck them with. The foliage in the side yard is growing speckled. The neighbors pool, unfiltered, waxes and wanes between clear and algal. The bleeding heart, struggling all summer, loses more chlorophyll. I will welcome the brown and red days to come.
I received an Aerogarden as an early Mother’s Day present and I’m surprisingly pleased with it. It’s a tiny hydroponic garden meant for your kitchen counter and it comes with a set of herb seeds. The seeds are wrapped up in special sponges and set into plastic plugs and the plugs fit into holes in the Aerogarden. A pump inside the basin directs water through the plugs. All you need to do is keep the basin filled with water and add a couple of nutrition tablets to the water every two weeks. Then, when the herbs have grown, harvest them once a week to keep them full and growing.
It’s been fun watching the seedlings sprout.
I do not usually grow flowers. At our previous house, I had vegetable beds and in other places I planted perennials that I didn’t think about much. Here, at our new house, we have a large front yard and I have been digging it up and planting flower seedlings. So far, I have filled it in with easy annuals like zinnias and cosmos but as the seasons change I will be adding bulbs and more perennials.
I set up our little greenhouse shelf on our enclosed porch and have been slowly planting flower seeds in my seedling trays. Much more slowly since I ran out of potting soil, in fact. Today I think we can pick some more soil up, though. Since the garden will be planted in our front yard I thought I’d grow mostly flowers. We are going with simple, hardy ones like cornflowers, marigolds and zinnias.
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