Spring at the B Bar K home

It is spring time at B Bar K.  This has been a wet spring, especially after the past 5 drought years.  This is also my first spring in California, first spring on B Bar K.


Some wildflowers have bloomed in April, mostly trillium, an early spring flower even in Idaho.  The trillium in California are huge.  The leaves and flower are both twice as big as an Idaho specimen.

Trillium

Trillium

Today, May 6, the following plants were in bloom in our B Bar K flower beds.  Most of these are not native, some are relatives of natives, and all are pleasant to see.

Purple Robe locust Robinia pseudoacacia

 

Columbine  Aquilegia sp.

Columbine  Aquilegia sp.

Columbine  Aquilegia sp.

Iris Iris

Iris Iris

 

California Dogwood Cornus nuttallii

 

 

Puffball Hydrangea Hortensia