No judging. This is a practice piece. I’m trying to learn to use my oil pastels, and this was one I did in the middle of the night last night when I couldn’t sleep with minimal lighting. I think it turned out pretty good considering I had no idea what I was doing! 🙂
Anyway, living in a rural area, Spring comes in waves. First the flowering bushes (forsythia, japonica) then the flowering trees (dogwood, red bud). Then the wildflowers pop up in the pasture and yard. My daughter and SIL have gotten into the habit of mowing around the areas they know will bloom with lovely wildflowers. Our favorite blooms are the crimson clover that come up in the ditch beside the road and the edges of the fenced-in yard. My SIL kind of rolls his eyes because he sees them all as weeds, but we try to keep the dandelions and wildflowers (his weeds) alive long enough the bees can get to them before they go to seed. We don’t worry about perfect grass or anything like that. Nature’s blooms are beautiful.
Anyway, that’s today’s puzzle theme—wildflowers. For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, solve the puzzle, then tell me what kinds of natural wildflowers bloom in your area this time of the year. Do you treat them like weeds or adore them like my daughter and I do?
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I understand the avoid mowing the wild flowers. I usually don’t mow for the first time until the end of May. If I can help it.
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There is so much land on the plantation preserve our house is apart of we leave the wild flowers 🌺 not everything that is wild is bad! Love the various colors and beauty that God blesses us with naturally.
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I dont have wildflower …small yard but I stop having my yard treated in the spring so the bees can enjoy the dandelions. But than I do have to spray a bit because we have thistles and I have grandbabies who hate shoes
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Whike I own 1/6 of a normal small city block, on that property are 2 houses. The yard of the other house has a built in hot tub, large wooden shed and the partial driveway is double wide. Basically nothing open for any grass, My side on the corner has a small front yard on Main Street. The back where I put in my garden, has been encroached upon by a 2nd lane of the driveway which houses an old truck, 2 newer trucks, a camera, another 4 door car and a large work van. I do not drive nor are any of those mine. Luckily missing is a small camping trailer.
2 passes with a weed eater will cut my front yard and maybe 4 passes will do the back. The only wild flower that grow are dandelions and clover just before they are cut.
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I have freshias growing wild. The bulbs multiply over time. Just beautiful.
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none here
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We get lots of wild columbine. They are so hard to get rid of once they start growing in your yard. They’re beautiful but not so great in out vegetable garden.
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I adore the wild flowers. Nothing like coming across a batch of Sweet William or violas. Lovely. I have a friend who likes Milk Weed. Now those I consider weeds, but to each their own. I live in town these days, so I have to be content with daffodils, tulips, crocus, all of which look like they are wild, but are all so beautiful!
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I enjoy wildflowers. They bring a lot of color. My favorite might be coreopsis.
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I love wild flowers. A local city has planted hundreds of Poppies beside the roads and in vacant lots.. It is so beautiful
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We are in the rural Middle Coast and have crocuses and trillium, followed by prairie grasses and flowers.
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It’s mostly dandelions and similar here. I personally enjoy them, but I also don’t really have a lawn, LOL…
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Dandelions are starting to come up. The daffodils beat them this year even.
I like flowers no matter what kind. Gardening green thumb.