Limelight

I think the name of this hydrangea is Limelight, for the light green flowers. Now that it is inside the big fence, I expect a full show of its brilliance. Up until now it has been regularly trimmed by the deer. Last year I fenced off as much as I could, but they trimmed off the parts that came through the fence. The longer shoots at the top were the only parts that bloomed.

This year, the only danger is from the dogs hiding in the shade underneath, and maybe digging a hole or 12 to make it cooler still.

Chicken Mama has her hands full with the 5 little ones. In this pic they are following behind her, but most of the time she is doing her best to keep up with them in the lead. Since they kept escaping whatever fortress I made for them, we decided to just let Mama defend them against all the scary things out there in the big world.

Yesterday they were almost all the way back to the house by the goat sheds. She still managed to get them all back in the coop at night to go to bed. Hard work being a good Chicken Mama!