Spring Has Sprung !!! :)

[flowerbug]

Why I love winter. It gives me a rest from plants, haha.

exactly!

 

[Carol Dee]

Oh I HOPE my lilly of the valley will get a good hold like yours.
All but 2 of the ones I planted came back and appear to have doubled.
Your spring gardens are LOVELY.

Thank You, I have tons of LOV Once established it spreads far and wide!

 

[Nyboy]

Love fish with long fins. Don't worry cane LOV will spread.

 

[baymule]

Can you leave the koi in the pond over the winter or do you have to take them inside?

 

[Carol Dee]

Can you leave the koi in the pond over the winter or do you have to take them inside?

The pond freezes solid! Soo the go into a livestock trough, a 50 gallon one I think. With a bubbler or livestock water heater for the winter. The go into a kind of dormancy where they do not need to eat much at all. When water warms enough in the spring we put them back in the pond.

 

[Nyboy]

I have poor mans koi goldfish. I thought my pond froze solid in Dec, but fish are still alive so guess not a 100%

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I waited all spring for robins and I have not seen a robin for at least 2 months and all of a sudden this morning the yard was full of them.

 

[digitS']

I saw a good-size flock (20+) of Robins, a few days ago. They were in and out of a Mountain Ash tree that was loaded with berries.

Driving another mile, or so, I came on 2 more. That would be about what I could hope to see at this time of year. Two, maybe with me looking around on a 10 mile drive in residential areas.

I was out for about a 150 miles recently and came across flocks of Starlings. They disappeared from near my home entirely last winter and I was surprised to see so many just 30 miles or so south (Palouse Hills). It's likely to be colder and even a few hundred feet higher in elevation. And, there are few trees. I think that the 360 degree views may help them with hawks. Still, there was plenty of hawks in those areas.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

I waited all spring for robins and I have not seen a robin for at least 2 months and all of a sudden this morning the yard was full of them. View attachment 29869 View attachment 29870 View attachment 29871

What kind of tree/shrub are those with the red berries?

 

[thistlebloom]

What kind of tree/shrub are those with the red berries?

Mountain Ash, not actually an ash species, it's in the Sorbus family.
Sorbus acuparia .