Contentment by design - Living

When we had our new cistern put in just a little over a year ago, the process resulted in a total upheaval of our parking spots and the area beyond in front of our home. We spent a lot of time that spring putting things back together, planted native Blue Gramma grass seed on the little hill that resulted, which is doing really well this year, and Garima also placed a beautiful line of lichen rocks to separate the parking area from the yard beyond.

Either the soil or pea gravel we used along those rocks must've been full of mullein seeds, because before long a dozen of them had popped up all along in front of the rocks. They are a biennial plant, so this is their year to grow large and flower.

The largest is right in front on the little cistern hill. It shot up to 3-1/2 feet and is probably 30 inches around. The first yellow flowers started popping out today. It's not a spectacular plant, but I really like it. I'm glad it grows wild around our place, and I like that it is helping to resettle this area that was so badly disturbed last year.