Rufus hummingbirds back, the yard is noisier than ever with those things now. Lots of ducks coming and going in the pond, often four but mostly two now. They don’t seem as skittish this last week, the female walked and rested around the yard, neither flew away when I just walked by. Still no wrens trying out my nesting box – I converted the ‘roosting box’ a couple of weeks ago by inverting the front, so the hole is towards the top. That way there is ventilation (hole in bottom during winter to keep heat in) and some protection for the babies. 
The nesting box is hanging by itself now (not sitting in planter), but is in the same spot. Hoping the wrens are comfortable enough to use it here. If not, will move it for the second brood.
Fawn lillies coming up, including the pink, white and off white! Some Leopard lillies and chocolate lillies just poking up. Oh, and my trilliums from seed…..in the back yard are the oldest ones, I can’t remember if they are arlund 4 or 5 years old now, but there are about 6 of them and they are all going to have the three leaves of a more mature seedling. Any flowers??? Can’t tell yet. But the oldest group also looks like they areTRILLIUM CHOLOROPETALUM (Giant Trillium). I’ll have to look that up and see whether I recorded the seed sowing or not. Those trilliums are cool, they have blotchy purple spots on the leaves….the flowers are fragrant and straighter in appearance.
OK, I just looked it all up…..According to my site entries, I apparently sowed some Trillium Chloropetalum seeds in the late summer 2010! That would mean these plants will be 7 years old and should flower this year, even if small. But, is the first winter considered the “first year”, or does the counting start the next spring? I kind of thought they may be only 5 or 6 years old, judging from how many times I remember watching for them to come up…but how time flies! In 2012, I even mentioned that I planted out the T.Chloroptelaum ‘bulbs’ along with the mention of the other propagated seedlings (trilliums take two years to ‘germinate’). Anyway, I also wrote that I planted Trillium Ovatum seeds outside and in pots in 2011, so those would be 6 years old now (and POSSIBLY flower), but the plants coming up don’t look that mature. How is it possible to lose track of plants that grow so slowly??!
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