Chocolate Lily popping up in several places, Lopez seeds planted about three years ago (photo of mature plant above). Most of them have survived mole ravages, landscaping traffic and other insults. They take about 3 years to start blooming.
Fawn lilies coming up, some with flower buds already (mature Fawn lily below). I haven’t seen the oldest ones yet, but maybe they are just later than the new ones, because of location or genetics, and I didn’t have any to compare. I’ll have to check my paper diary and see when they have come up in the past.
This is a banner season for Brodiaea and purple Camas, they are everywhere. There will be nice drifts of them in the meadow. Soon they will include White Camas and pale blue Camas Cuseckii, seedlings in their second year. There are a few small Camas from Lopez island, but I need to propagate them, as they are good broadcast spring plants that don’t overwhelm the yard like the giant ones can. I collected the seeds from the few flowers that formed last year and they seem to be relatively successful, so another three year cycle begins. Also, they help to stabilize a patch of garden and make it mole-resistant, because the bulbs migrate so deeply into the ground that they can’t be uplifted by the mole. Trilliums do this, also. Brodiaea, on the other hand, are very shallow bulbs and are easily unearthed by mole activity or even the usual elements of nature.
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Beautiful flowers, Ellie Mae!!