Around The Yard

So a while back, not long after I moved in, I planted some yarrow along the back retaining wall. I ended up with more yarrow than space to plant it in, so I stuck the remainder in some pots with a plan to use them down the road to fill in any gaps if some died or didn't fill out well.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, some died or didn't fill out well.

This end of the wall tends to dry out a lot quicker and gets pretty beaten on by the afternoon sun, so it's not really a shock that the yarrow here hasn't fared as well.

In case you're wondering, the irrigation hose here is a leftover from the previous owner's half-hearted (or perhaps half-assed) attempt to automate the watering here. Except they didn't actually hook it up to anything other than a garden hose quick-connect, so to use it you need to unspool a garden hose, click it into the quick-connect, turn the water on, come back later and turn the water off, then disconnect the hose and get sprayed in the face with hose water because the pressure never really dropped when you turned off the hose.

So yeah, I've just been watering this manually and ignoring the "irrigation system" here.

Anyway, that's neither here nor there, let's get that potted yarrow into the ground.

I also pruned off some of the spent flower stalks from the one here that had been somehow clinging to life. I'm hoping that these will fill in enough to shade the soil which should break the cycle of the soil drying out causing the yarrow to get stunted causing the soil to not be shaded causing the soil to dry out...

In other news, the red palm thingie in the back yard is getting horny.

For whatever reason it decided that it wants to have a second trunk. More power to it, I guess.

As for the emotional support lawn, it seems like the soil has plenty of nutrients after I did a few years of chicken shit topdressing.

And in other yards, here's a few pictures of the Santa Teresa spring that I took earlier this week while out on my morning bike ride.

And another picture of some nearby scenery.

Because why not.