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As you can see, the apple trees are severely overgrown and are blocking too much sun to promote healthy lawn growth.
After round two. The junk has been removed. I also moved the woodpile from under the wood-and-licorice-fern structure to the front yard (to use as nurse logs for bugs and as erosion control along the grapevine-fence). I also pulled a bunch of ivy from along the fence, cut back the spurge laurel as far as I could with hand clippers, and cut back the blackberry behind the wood/licorice fern fence, to make it easier to get the junk and ivy out from between our fence and Portland Nursery's fence.
Photowalk 34 of 52 - Backyard
I didn't have a real plan for this walk and I started walking around in some of my families backyards (they live close to each other). I think I got some good shots, one of which I've been hoping for is the butterfly with the blue yellow and black.
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Have a few House Sparrows that visit the backyard feeders. Hoping they'll act like live decoys and bring in some other species of sparrows or .................
Patching the concrete steps leading to my backyard was on my project list but someone got there before me. I only hope it is a male because female ribbon snakes give birth to between 10 and 20 baby snakes around the end of June.
This was taken in my garden in Chiang mai. They had to be the biggest, most beautiful caterpillars I'd ever seen. Unfortunately I wasn't around to see what they hatched into after pupating.