Yay! Yardwork!

I really missed working in the yard. While manperson was working from home today and babby was napping, I went out back and did some maintenance. One of the plants I thought was ligustrum growing back is actually a very nice pomegranate which is blooming today. My leadball tree has it's first yellow leadballs and they are beautiful.

My favorite yellow flower, the calylophus, is blooming as well. I'm falling in love with my yard again in it's new form. I'm now envisioning more of a natural space. I plan on planting blackberries that hopefully will outweed the weeds in the back corner especially the poison oak or at least block it off. Due to the ligustrum and their poisonous ickiness for kiddos, my backyard is not a safe space for babby especially since babby likes to put everything in her mouth and taste it, but eventually once she is past this stage maybe we can have a piece of nature in our backyard with some veggie raised beds. I figured if I can keep the ligustrum berries from forming I can at least safe other natural spaces from the evils of ligustrum.

I have two of the seeds in the veggie garden coming up. No idea which ones, though I'm pretty sure one is a squash.

As I was working back there today, I was daydreaming about putting up lights and having people over hanging out back there, eating, drinking and conversating.

I have this little ball of happiness growing inside again as I think of what I can create back there...