More Yard Work – January 2024

The forecast for very cold blustery weather in Missouri had me scurrying to get a few more things done in the yard.

I picked up a pile of sticks from our side yard; they are from our neighbor’s river birch…too small to cause damage but I’d rather not let them accumulate too much. They make good kindling in our chimenea to enable me to burn some of the bigger pieces that have accumulated from other trees.

The rock rose my sister sent home with me is now planted in the corner of the back yard. It will probably get through the frigid cold better being in the ground rather than a pot. There was also a millet seed head in that corner; if both grow next summer that corner should be an interesting new bed…rounding the corner to make mowing easier.

I also planted some iris rhizomes along the fence. I still have more of them in buckets; I put the buckets close to the wall of the house on the patio under the deck and hope they survive to be planted next time the temperate is in the 50s!