Yard update part 2

Another weekend of football and yard work is in the books.  All of our teams, except the University of Virginia won, so that means UGA and ISU are both still undefeated.  I keep telling the CFO that we need to go to an ISU game, especially since they are her employer.

I was out working in the yard on Saturday afternoon while this vintage 1929 Ford Tri-motor kept doing circles around the airport, so I got my camera and took some photos of it. 

Since I had the camera in the yard, I went ahead and snapped a few pictures of the yard.  As I expected, it looks a bit weedy, but that is how native looks a lot of the time.  The lighting wasn't ideal either, but enough with the excuses:

here is that same picture with some plants identified on it:

There are also some Forsythia in the back near the big blue stem, I planted them as tiny bare root twigs two springs ago and they have put on some serious size this year.  I'm hoping for a good display of early spring color from them in 2013. The purple cones have pretty much stopped blooming and I am letting them dry out and drop seeds to increase the quantity of plants in the area.  Unless the birds eat them all, which is a distinct possibility.  The side oats that are planted with them have quickly become my favorite, I like how the oats hang on the side of the stem. 

The little blue stem is starting to turn red for the winter, I think the red in the fall is definitely more prominent than the blue color for which it is named, but who am I to judge the people who named these plants?  Considering all the natives were planted from seed last spring, I think I am doing ok...

I took some cell phone photos of the front planting, but they didn't turn out too well... I will re-shoot that area with the real camera this week.