Mexican
Hats
A dull
cloudy but warm day so I went out to do yard work mostly clearing up
the dead stuff, pulling up finished flowers and de -seeding poppies.
If you have a garden area as big as mine you could work outside for
24 hours a day and never finish so I do a bit here and there whenever
I feel like it. I am definitely a “pottering gardener”.
I was
checking on the front easement along the road outside our house. The
local ordinance requires us to keep the grasses etc under 12inches. A
couple of weeks ago I had cut the grasses being careful to leave
anything I thought might just be a wild flower . It looked rather
messy when I had finished as I had tufts of grasses sticking up all
over the place. Since then we have had a little rain and lots of sun
so I thought I would check this morning to see if it needed mowing
again.
What a
lovely surprise I got.
 |
| Mexican hat |
( No
nobody had been out there and mowed it for me.)
There
was a lovely area of Mexican hat wild flowers growing. These are
pretty tall flowers in various shades of yellow and browns and you
can see they get their name from the very distinctive shape. So
pretty when nearly all the other flowers have gone.
Looks
like the mowing will have to wait until another day.
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