D.O.P.-T.

[weofodthignen]

The showers petered out this morning with a total of .95" for the 2 days (in Los Altos).

Since I water the grass with a hose sprinkler, dry, bare corners develop front and back no matter what I do. (I tried a square sprinkler one year but it didn't fix the problem.) It's probably a sign that I'm not over-watering ... So last spring after the drought broke and those corners filled in with more clover, oxalis, and other wildflowers than elsewhere, I experimented with leaving them alone when mowing until the wildflowers went to seed and started to die off. Then I mowed and weeded and resumed treating those bits as lawn. I've done that again this year, with somewhat larger wildflower corners. I like the way it looks except for the tall grass peeping through (and it's a great deterrent to delivery people tromping across the grass in front), but the pics from the backyard are under the cut because they will horrify 95% of gardeners.

Comments

[altrinc]

Very pretty! A flower meadow, quite fashionable on this side of the pond. Ideal for pollinating bees, butterflies and creepycrawlies. I particularly like the wildflowers that have begun to arrive, such as that little pink flower in the last picture.

[weofodthignen]

Thanks! I've actually seen a dad and toddler looking at the tiny flowers in the front. Splashing the pavement is a big drought no-no, so the grass also struggles and tends to give way to wildflowers at the very edge, except under the birch tree, where I hand water.

A similarly tiny purplish flower on the wild geranium is also peeping through in the middle of the middle pic.