walk around

the yard with my camera yesterday- early flowers- bleeding hearts!

Spring beauty

Heartleaf brunnera

Monarda is already a heap of lush foliage

My daylilies came up later than everyone else's in the neighborhood, but now are twice as big.

Yellow salvia is growing leaps and bounds

I can't get over the prettiness of cranesbill leaves. I'm going to plant its tiny scion next to it very soon.

Turtlehead! this is the patch in the very back of the yard, by a tree behind my leaf mulch pile.

The blue green weed I harbor. One of them is particularly large this spring.

Found another of the little, pretty rose-like plant. I've asked on a gardening forum what it might be, no solid answer yet.

Here's the viburnum I transplanted out of the back into a spot on the sloped sideyard last year.

Nearby there's another one sprung up between tree roots. Unfortunately, I can't figure out what kind of viburnum they might be. I learned there's many many, and a lot of them are foriegn but easily spread by the birds. I'd rather have a native. I looked up the ones that are problematic here: mine isn't tea viburnum or linden viburnum but it could be siebold or double-file.

I learned this past week that a weed in my yard, is actually edible and very nutritious. It's purple dead nettle. Tried it in a salad. Leaving it to grow where it is scattered around, I'm going to pull some every time I have a salad or dish I could add it to.