The original stump garden with Dame's Rocket and Poppies in bloom
The stump gardens change week by week, from March through November. At this point in their transition, there are few flowers blooming. Chives, Poppies, Dame's Rocket, Azalea, Petunias, Irises, and Columbine are the sum total of the blooms. This sunny garden will soon have stunning daylilies, a huge peony, and a low growing, ground cover-like astilbe in bloom.
My "newest", but most rapidly disintegrating, stump garden has azaleas and petunias in bloom. Soon it will have some gorgeous daylilies, spirea, and a tiny, newly planted peony in bloom.
The triangle has three stumps of maple trees with slow disintegration, although next summer I will take advantage of the hole in the middle of the nearest stump. This shade garden has astilbe and hostas that will bloom in July.
As we meander from the triangle, we find that Ernest P. Mowerbird has decided to claim a nearby stump as his own.
This cheeky bird proudly sports mower parts as his body components.
Gee, we sure do have a lot of chipmunks running around. In the wood pile behind Ernest P Mowerbird, there are three chippies who have taken up residence. They keep us thoroughly entertained with their antics.
Of course, their food source, the bird seed feeder, is just a chipmunk hop, skip, and a jump away! If you look closely enough, you will see another chipmunk on the ground under the seed feeder! Of course, the stumps here support the bird bath and seed that gets sprinkled into the cracks and crevices of the stumps.
The wood in the woodshed has been stacked, and is dried and ready for the upcoming winter and spring heating season. It is a tall stack, three rows deep, that tends to bow outward a bit. Hence the X bracing to keep it stable.
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