Signs of Rim Country Spring
Signs of Rim Country Spring are everywhere across our landscape.
California poppy plants are growing in and along our crushed granite driveways and yards, heralding the superbloom to come, already in full display in and on the way down to the “Valley.”
Apricot trees are loaded with buds blossoming into snowy white flowers. Peaches, plums, and cherry plums, are likewise beginning to display their various shades of pink flowers. Fingers crossed that they’ll survive the coming frosts and develop into fabulous fruit!
Some iris are already in bloom, flowering far in advance of their taller cousins. And, in advance of the tulips now dotting the garden.
Carpets of henbit’s tiny purple flowers spread across open areas. While not native and related to mint, henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) is a non-invasive weed, edible for people and herbivores alike.
Dandelions, another non-native edible weed, are sprouting up. Some already sport their fuzzy white seed heads. Spring has sprung!
