Lets See What Spring is Bringing # Wednesday Walk

With the weather warming up a little bit these last few days, I figured I'd take a walk around the farm for @tattoojay's @wednesdaywalk, and see what life had sprouted from Mother Earth.
Within the first several minutes of my walk, a sign appeared, telling me that that Spring was truly around the corner. The first Eastern Gold Finch had shown up at the bird feeder.

Starting my walk right by the house, a rubber plant is poking its head through.

Newly purchased Rose bush ready to go in the ground.

A few more pics verifying the arrival of spring.

This is a great sign. The wild Blueberry bushes I had dug up and carried out of the woods, down some rather steep terrain, have made it through the winter. I'm pumped.

Garlic, planted last November, is usually the first thing out of the ground. In total we have about 50 plants.

Chives, they come back every year. Boy are they good in smashed potatoes!

Walnut tree buds, hopefully they are still several weeks from bursting open. If they open too soon, and a frost sets, the buds will die and several central leaders will develop. This is a pain in the arse, due to the fact that each of the over 200 veneer grade Black Walnut trees will have to be pruned down to one central leader.

Miniature Weeping Pussy Willow.

Rubber Plant

Got me!

Long stem Rose bush, just planted today.

Wild Daffodils

Got me, but I do remember the beautiful bush of blue flowers it produced last year.

Wild Tiger Lillies and some more Wild Daffodils

Wild Leeks, these were transplanted from the forest about a 1/4 mile from here. They are delicious. They get a nice bulb at the end, much like an onion. The taste is rather unique, kind of a cross between garlic and onion. Very mellow flavor.

Hop shoots, coming from the hop rhizome. These prolific vines will reach 30 feet by the time they start producing the actual hops. Being a home brewer, these come in really handy.

Took a moment to move the plank back over the gully. When it rains hard, the gully is brimming with water. We remove the plank for the winter. This is a shortcut through the woods, to my buddy's house.

We planted 15 White Pine trees and here are a couple of them. They made it through the winter despite being laid almost flat from the winter snow. Thank goodness for that egg and milk spray as the deer DID NOT TOUCH these very vulnerable trees.
Have deer browsing on your vegetation, well here is a sure fire remedy. 6 eggs to a quart of milk, beat it with a mixer and put in a spray bottle, spray away.

While walking up the road to take a picture of the place where we got our Wild Leeks from, the mountain side was also waking up from winter. Can you see the reddish hew in these photos?

A couple of the fields of Wild Leeks, I was talking about.

Aspen trees starting to do their thing. As they start to come to life they produce a cotton like flower. This bloom is the first stage for them. In about a week, the tops of the Aspens will be filled with these puffy balls. When the wind blows, the air will be filled with beautiful, fluffy cotton balls, slowly making their way to the ground.

These next two pictures were taken while I was lying on my back. With the zoom at its max, I was able to capture the tops of some of my favorite trees here on the farm.
These magnificent, old growth trees form a canopy, at the very least 100 feet above the ground. The canopy shades a trail that goes to a section of our Black Walnut Tree Farm.
If you have read any of my stuff, you may know the name of this tree. Would you like to take a guess?

Yo, @dandays, if you guessed The Sugar Maple or Hard Maple, one in the same, you win two bottles of

Well, look what else sprung up. Back in the day, while still living with Mom and Dad, I had a couple of these same flowers growing in my bedroom window. If my memory server me correct, when my Mom saw them, she said "Bobby it looks like you're growing some Phomossoo Plants," I agreed, and have been growing Phomossoo Plants since.

Don't try to look up Phomossoo in Webster's, I spelled this totally phonetically and it sounds like this Pho -mo-ssoo😁😁😁

Weather wise, this had to be one of the best days up here in some time. The sky was blue, the temp got to 68, and there was a gentle breeze.
I had picked this Daffodil earlier on my walk, and gave it to my lovely bride.
FIRST FLOWER OF THE YEAR.

Hope you enjoyed! thebigsweed