Lots of flowers

David found a dozen or so native hawthorne trees around the property, which produced striking displays of white flowers, which later turned to berries readily consumed by local birds. So we had flowers without any effort.

Daugher Bevin gifted a supply of daffodils and camas the previous fall. These flowered during our first spring in the house. Also she planted batchelor buttons, iris, black-eyed susan, and calendula.

Bags containing numerous bulbs of various sorts (dahlia, liatris) filled a shopping cart and soon, raised beds, containers and amended flower beds next to the house, along with geraniums in pots and .

During the first summer we built flower beds, taking saving dahlia and liatris for new flowerbeds, populating one with hosta and astilbe, others with calendula, jonquils, tulips and a few daffodils. We planned to grow vegetables in the raised beds.