Double Daff Surprise! |
Creeping Jacobs Ladder is a good companion for hostas and pollinators love them, but gotta warn you they reseed like crazy |
"Sound" daffodils are back from the brink |
Second, I found two types of daffs blooming this spring that I thought had disappeared from the yard years ago. A very pleasant surprise indeed!
It wasn't all happy surprises though. One unpleasant discovery I made is that the garlic mustard situation in my backyard has seriously deteriorated. I really need to kick butt this season and regularly patrol and remove those horrible, horrible plants.
So, on to the subject of today's post. Despite the stingy amount of rain we've gotten the last couple of months, some of my spring bloomers are looking fabulous...Virginia Bluebells and Creeping Jacobs Ladder, both Wisconsin natives, have blue blooms and don't seem to be struggling as much as some others. Throw in some pulmonaria and there's just a lot of blue happening right now in my garden.
There's a lot of pollinator action happening too. It turns out that I'm not the only one who likes blue.
Although I only see hummingbirds and the big kind of bumblebee visiting my pulmonaria, EVERYONE loves creeping Jacob's Ladder! Big bees, little bees, big and small flying insects that I don't recognize, and even ants. I sat down for a bit to watch the show and the bumblebees were so covered in pollen you could hardly see their legs. There was just a swarm of flying critters working over the plants. I don't see that kind of pollinator activity except in the late fall when the sedums and native goldenrods are blooming.
Deer leave these ephemeral Wisconsin natives alone (at least in my yard) |
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