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Azalea 🌺 blooms a full month after all the others.
"BEHOLD, I shall never submit to your 'schedule'!"
#bloomscrolling #portalberni #yard

Time for a walk around the yard as I was watering this morning. It's going to be hot today (30°C)
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#bloomscrolling #altgrass #portalberni #yard #diy

lots of flowers now in the alt-grass including a new white and purple one! And the strawberries are ripe under the growing 🍎 tree!
It's weird when the driveway is the most productive part of the yard!
The hope though is that this is a preview of what our backyard will become over the next couple years. 🤞
Also managed to put the trailer back in its spot. The grass seems tough enough now to handle the traffic.
#bloomscrolling #altgrass #portalberni #yard #diy

The sickly transplanted arbutus tree is no longer sickly and may be on the verge of Menace status. 😂 Thankfully, we have supportive neighbours. That is their house it is reaching toward, not ours. 😂
#tree #yard #PacificMadrone #Arbutus

and then there is the backyard... lol. The hazelnut tree is doing surprisingly well considering the chaos literally at its feet. The far flower garden with the blueberries and the only rose bush we like is also doing OK especially now that I have battled back against the encroaching blackberry vines.
I didnt capture the new plum, or the rhubarb-amazon, but they're ok too.
We are starting to make real progress on the pond/pool now. The inlets for the wetland filter are in the hole and we started placing the large rocks on the bottom... the first layer.
Many yards of rock and pebble to go! Oh, and I have had to peel back some of the liner
in the pool. I've decided I need to make a landing spot for one pump to live in the back corner of the pool so it can circulate water from the bottom.
Uncovered an anthill in the process! 🐜
#portalberni #yard #diy #poolPond

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Yard Act & Elton John:
🎵 100% Endurance (Elton John Version)
#YardAct #EltonJohn
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zyFMERNIyF0EDEVPC9Ck8

Some blooming closeups. #bloomscrolling #altgrass #portalberni #yard #diy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Yard Act:
🎵 Payday (6 Music Session, 2 Dec 2022)
#YardAct
https://open.spotify.com/track/54xTBGmKCsrrWDiUrM9UFX

Fruit is happening! and more
flowers #bloomscrolling #altgrass #portalberni #yard #diy

I feel like I disrespected the backyard. So here is some backyard blooming and fruiting love! See the hazelnut!?
#bloomscrolling #fruit #grapes #rhubarb #portalberni #yard #diy #poolPond

More pics of the thickening verge! Most of the greenery is actualy the california poppy that havent bloomed. The rest is clover and the white flowers (alyssum?)
This is as tall as it should get (about six inches) with the exception of when the poppies bloom they send up slightly taller stalks.
#yard #diy #grass #noconcrete #diy #bloomscrolling

The white flowers in the new “alt-grass” have started to pop up in the front of the driveway (bottom right) and middle. Still patchy bits but nbd. And the taller stuff is now shading/protecting/cooling the smaller.
The front (bottom) that we seeded a few weeks after the initial planting is growing in nicely.
In a few weeks maybe we will get some poppies in the oldest areas.
Love this stuff!
We can start to walk on the older now, gently. Feels nice barefoot. Down to watering once a day, morning, unless it is over 30°C.
Intending to get more slate slabs next week, so I’ll put in a fourth step stone and probably move the one on the left back a few inches. I’ll try to be careful so I can transplant the grass to some of the patchy areas.
That will also be a first try at backing the trailer over the hump onto the new paths with a lot of weight.
#yard #diy #grass #noconcrete #diy #bloomscrolling