Homestead Happenings: Flowers & Nature 6/1/26!

Pictured: View from the Applegate River area Memorial Weekend.

This past week was a busy one! Shane went on a camping trip over Memorial Weekend down in the Applegate River area. The girl child and I planted all the hanging baskets and cleaned up the rest of the patio. Shane and I took a woods walk, per usual, as well.
Enjoy! Amy

Table of Contents:
~ Garden Guides & Plantings! ~
~ Phenology: The Seasons Through Blooms! ~
~ Applegate River Camping Trip! ~
~ Livestock News & More Blog Info ~
~ Thank You! ~

~ Garden Guides & Plantings! ~

The waning gibbous moon (Full moon through Last Quarter moon) is good for planting root crops and perennials.

I’ve compiled a list of planting dates for 2026 based on the moon phases:
2026 Planting Guide – Zones 7/8
Here is the advice for this week:
After 1:45pm May 31st to before 3:01pm Jun 7th (waning gibbous moon)
Sow Outdoors: chives, dahlias, gladioli, tuberous begonias
Prune lilacs, rhododendrons and azaleas after bloom.

My daughter and I planted the hanging baskets and cleaned up the rest of the patio. Looks so much better!!! Still have a tub left to plant with the remaining Geraniums, but I’ll probably do that next week!

~ Phenology: The Seasons Through Blooms! ~

5/31/26 blooms – Siberian Spring Beauty (Claytonia sibirica), Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens), Marsh Forget-me-not (Myosotis laxa), Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus), Hawthorn (Crataegus mongyna).

~ Applegate River Camping Trip! ~

Shane and his daughter, Avery, went on a camping trip over Memorial weekend to the Applegate River area in SW Oregon. They saw many flowers we don’t see up here (at least on the farm anyway).

Memorial Weekend blooms (and mushrooms) from the Applegate River:
Ookow (Dichelostemma congestum), Harvest Brodiaea (Brodiaea elegans), Crimson Columbine (Aquilegia formosa), California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Western Starflower (Lysimachia borealis), Hooker’s Catchfly (Silene hookeri), Tolmie Star Tulip (Calochortus tolmiei), American Vetch (Vicia americana), Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa) Deerbrush Ceanothus (Ceanothus integerrimus), Silver Lupine (Lupinus albifrons), Veiled Polypore (Cryptoporus volvatus)

Some critters he saw too:

~ Livestock News & More Blog Info ~

Don’t forget the monthly Homestead Happenings: Livestock Edition that goes out the first of each month!
Here’s the latest:
Homestead Happenings: Livestock Edition June 2026

The next Homestead Happenings: Livestock Edition for the June recap will come out July 1st, where we check in with how the sheep & chicken flocks are faring at the start of Summer!

We’ll also see you all again June 8th for the next Homestead Happenings: Flowers & Nature, where there will be even more garden guidance and we check out what else is blooming in the woods and gardens!

The blog is a sampling of all the photos I’ve taken this month.
Please head over to our social media to see the photo dumps!

~ Thank You! ~

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