Spring on the Homestead
The blackberries survived the winter and after being purple they are now green again. I am waiting on the blooms to come and see if the borage I planted by them will come up and attract the bees to help pollinate them. I am making a small strawberry bed nearby and hope to have pictures of it on the next blog. Speaking of attracting bees, I planted at the end of last summer not knowing if it was the pot with bee balm seeds growing or cone flower seeds growing. Now that they are back and growing bigger I believe this is bee balm and I'll have to start over with the cone flowers. This is around the project I started last year. The rain garden is still bare but I did put some irises and daylilys around it. The irises are white bearded and Siberian purple ones. During the winter I planted some blue vervaine but I am still waiting to see if it comes up. The roots of this plant will soak up rainwater in an area that it would normally pool....