The meadow in 2021

In its fourth summer, I'm astonished to see stuff coming up that I planted two, three, even four years ago — plants I thought had died, or were barely hanging on; flowers from seed mixes I thought had vanished without a trace… now in profusion! The other evening, how good it was to see a platoon of bumblebees working the lupines.

Our story so far:

Henderson's shooting star
Sorry I didn't catch the fawn lily when it was a perfect bell
The first Oregon iris
Happy stream violets all over the shady part
A lone buttercup in the lupine forest
Why I first fell for lupines

Oregon sunshine and dianthus in circus colors
Oregon sunshine and these white buttony things
Monkeyflowers, planted this year in the new part
A pink monkeyflower in the established part... who knew?
Blue-field gilia
Unknown something peachy that bees really like
Oregon bee's friend is creepy-looking but well-named, with bumblebees always on it. (Look near the top.)
For lupines, it's already fall.
Panorama of the sunny half
Bees really like this whatever-it-is, too.
Foxglove volunteer
Now showy milkweed starts, much bigger than last year. Hope the butterflies notice.
And the meadow creeps downhill... three different dianthus in the untended area.

Irises in several colors — who knew?
Cue lupines
At last a camas lily
Lawn daisies volunteer a border
A whole drift of fried-egg flowers! (Seriously, what are these?)
Irises in profusion
Blue-eyed grass in profusion
Purple columbine fireworks
Lupines alight
Not everything's purple — red columbines in profusion
This gorgeous orange something directly athwart the path shows how unplanned it all is
Camas lilies continue to pop up
Bleeding hearts by the path under the fir
Lupine poppies columbine eggflower
The lupine riot, with wellhouse
Red columbine
Blue-eyed grass with daisies
Dianthus starts
Path into lupine tangle