Project: Magnus

I've lived in my cur­rent house for over 12 years, the longest I've ever lived in one place. By far. Shortly after we moved in we planted a tree in the back­yard. I swear it was an apple tree (I have this thing for plant­ing things that server multi-​​purposes: pretty + bears fruit) but to this day it has never pro­duced fruit. Regard­less of that it does pro­duce some of the most strik­ing blooms I've seen. And it's come to sig­nal the start of spring for me. There is noth­ing like wak­ing up one morn­ing and see­ing the tree full of blos­soms. It just makes me happy :)

You can't tell from the photo, but this is one stub­born crocus.

If you look at the extreme right of the image, the grey there is the side of one of my raised gar­den beds. Where this flower is grow­ing has bee tilled, raked, pruned and de-​​bulbed over the course of 3 years. The first two didn't have the raised beds so it was a reg­u­lar 'grow in rows' veg­gie gar­den. Any­time a flower or weed grew I pulled it. And I was not gen­tle about it. Nor was I par­tic­u­lar. If it wasn't in the row (or in the raised bed) it got yanked.

And yet… this lit­tle croci has man­aged, along with a cou­ple other sib­lings, to come up this year.

Hence the name.

Hard to believe this was taken over 10 years ago.

Peaches grow­ing on one of the 2 trees in the back yard. There are hun­dreds on this tree alone.