Barbara Falconer Newhall

Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall riffs on life as she knows it.

My Front Yard — It’s a Happening Place

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my front yard -- it's a happening place with its lush-flower-garden
My front yard — it’s a happening place. Put in only two months ago, at the end of April, the plants in my new garden are asserting their right to take up space. Photo by Barbara Newhall

When the universe was created (when it created itself?), it opted to be a place where things happen.

Things change. That’s the nature of the situation. Which explains why the pile of dirt that was my front yard a couple of months ago is now a free-for-all.

Life forms — petunias, poppies, gladiolas — are shooting up outside my front door, claiming space for themselves on the planet. There’s no stopping them.

My front yard — it’s a happening place. Dragonflies visit it. Bees visit it. I visit it.

More nature stories at “Is That a Fibonacci Blooming in Our Front Yard?”   Also, “God’s Sin or Ours?”

my newly planted garden is about to become: my front yard -- it's a happening place.
A little over two months ago, my newly planted front yard looked like this — mostly dirt and rocks. Photo by Barbara Newhall
My front yard -- it's a happening place with its iceland-poppy-champagne-dreams
Apparently, this Iceland poppy “Champagne Dreams Orange” likes where it’s landed in my front yard. It keeps popping out blossoms. Photo by Barbara Newhall
my front yard -- it's a happening place with a bee-on-Cranesbill-"Rozanne"
The neighborhood bees especially like the Cranesbill “Rozanne.” Photo by Barbara Newhall
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This purple Petunia “Dreams” has done better than the pink and the yellow petunias planted next to it. I wonder, did I give it a better spot? Photo by Barbara Newhall
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Not my front yard, but also a happening place —  the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, where new stars are shown being formed in this newly released NASA photo. NASA photo.

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  1. Barbie, your front yard is just the right blend of profuse and tamed lovely.

    • The “new” yard is very much in the tradition of the garden Bob put in. Same rocks. And I have a huge bag of Japanese anemone seeds that are the descendants of the ones he planted. I guess I plant those in the fall???

      • i thought i recognized those rocks! as for the anemones, I planted the seeds you sent already, though nothing has come up. probably smart enough to wait until the weather cools. you might want to plant some now for fall bloom.