D.O.P.-T. (yesterday)

I broke down and watered the front lawn a bit. All that lovely clover ....

D.O.P.-T.

In the backyard, meanwhile ... where the grass needs mowing again ... the purple flowers in the corner I call the fairy garden are slow getting started this year. The tree has grown out and shades the spot, and I mowed down the old ones last year so they are just dry sticks now and have to be replaced from seed. However, on either side of the opposite corner of the lawn, two huge plants have already grown up, each with a sheaf of flowers; over a couple of days first one, then the other got too heavy for its stem and fell over onto the grass, where the flowers all proceeded to swivel to point upwards again, like a candelabra. Those have already produced their first seed pompoms.