The sun paid a visit...

Category: gardening among the rocks | Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 2:59 pm

And just in time, too. We had a couple of friends over for lunch- between them they have 4 little girls. Little girls plus a prairie full of wildflowers means parents clicking away like mad with their photo cameras. I'm hoping to get a pic of our little friends in the flowers, to do a painting (of course) but here's a bit of what they were playing among...

The wildflowers are so thick this year! every clump of prairie violets is so full of flowers... it's breathtaking. And as you can tell, the color and number of the rare-and-lovely shooting stars is amazing, we've been seeing about half this number of blooms per stem. Clearly, all the rain, rain, rain and late snows are doing something good.
It takes a bit of work to keep the invasive scotch broom off this place, but the payoff in spring is unbeatable!
For our prairie day, we printed out photos we'd taken of the flowers (I say "we" but it's all DH, he's the techy one!) and sent the girls on a "treasure hunt" to find and identify them. One little sweetie couldn't bring herself to pick the pretty flowers, but she won the treasure hunt anyway. It's so funny to see our place through new eyes. They all were enchanted by the little animals we have tucked away here and there; the goldfish in the three little ponds kept rising to the top to sun themselves eliciting squeals and giggles.
It felt a bit like that old sci-fi film, "all summer in a day", and it's back to chilly this morning, but I'm happy with it!

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Droopy wrote on Tue May 06, 2008 3:18 pm:

Oh, oh, oh, it's too beautiful for words! Imagine those Dodecathon growing wild in your fields, and here I am, lovingly tending the purple and the white ones to enjoy their blooms in my garden. I never knew they were a prairie flower.

dooley wrote on Tue May 06, 2008 3:24 pm:

I love the wildflowers where ever we have lived. There are so many with so many different climates and environments. I have some I will try to take pictures of today or tomorrow. I don't know what they are but I think I scattered the seeds last year and they just came up this year after the rain. dooley

eileen wrote on Tue May 06, 2008 4:02 pm:

There's nothing better than fields of wildflowers and yours are really pretty Mary. I'd loved to have watched the children on their treasure hunt and seen the expressions on their faces. A perfect day!!!

dirt2diamonds wrote on Tue May 06, 2008 4:21 pm:

I'm a big kid but I would love to run and play in such a lovely garden. I would even love to been sitting and watching the kids. Kids in a garden really does it for me, I love my garden through children eyes too.