That's Mei Lee on the right by the Siberian iris; she's one of the people that works for my friend David who is helping me with the yard. Today Mei Lee and Michael were removing aged compost from the compost bins and spreading them around the plants. The posts were put in place a few years ago, I just never got around to adding the cross arms. Here's what the trellis looked like today when we had to stopped.
That bushy clump at about the middle of the center post is the one kiwi plant that I have. It is called Issai and is supposed to be self-fertile. Last year it had about a dozen blossoms but they all fell off. This year there are a lot more blossoms and there are a bunch of bumblebees to pollinate them! The instructions for it does say that it will set more fruit if you have another variety to act as a pollinator. But since everything I have read about kiwis says that they give A LOT of fruit (~150 lbs per plant), I figured having less fruit (~75 lbs) was not necessarily a bad thing.
The house sparrows were a little put out by us since we were working so close to the feeder. But the black-capped chickadees brought their babies to the feeder, there were 3 of them along with the parents. The hummingbirds were also not bothered by us; they kept buzzing around, driving off other hummingbirds. A male goldfinch and a rock pigeon also came to check things out but neither stuck around too long.
Had a great visit yesterday from the real estate agent and a couple that is interested in buying the house. I hope to know more about the outcome tomorrow or the next day.
Happy Birthday to Angie and Ruby!
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