Spring Flowers

 Here's a few pics of what's growing here in Ohio:

Poppy that came up from the original poppy plant is above.  My fancy chicken that lays beautiful blue eggs got into the protected fence area and decided to trim it way back to this.  Whew.  So glad some of it is left.  This is about as big as when it originally started.  It grew huge last year.

Below is the chunk of poppy starts I cut off of the huge plant around Thanksgiving.  Poppies don't seem to like to have their roots disturbed.  I took a chance to split them and it looks like it worked!  

The ducks are ready for a swim.  It was dry enough this week for all of the chickens to have a nice, social dust bath.  I wish I would have snuck up on all the chickens as they were getting a drink form the "pool" showing off their nice fluffy, healthy butt feathers.  Maybe next time...

Lambs ear is coming up nicely after being "groomed" by the chickens.  It seems that nature always just knows what is needed and what to do--except for when the deer trim my plants way too much.

My Rose Campion didn't do anything last year.  They were baby plants.  They survived the winter.  Hopefully they will bloom this year.  I hear that the deer don't seem to bother them.  If they grow nicely, I may move some of them to the orchard area where the deer graze almost everything else.

I thought for sure the daffodils would bloom by the first day of spring.  Here they are the day after.  I continue to dig the bulbs out of a bed that is in the shade.  I replanted these last fall.

I planted these in the ditch.  These came up.  The ones I planted closer to the deer trail did not make it.

Hoping my Accuquilt "grandma's flower" garden blooms.  I'm still practicing how to put together the basted hexagons.  I'm not there yet... Practice and patience are on order.