Tiger lillies blooming, here’s some below with Brodiaea:
Gaillardia, Brodiaea, Yellow wooly flower, bluebell and Penstemon richardsonii blooming. Lots of green leaves still, due to all the cool weather and summer rains.
The Rattlesnake plantain that I boke off (accidentally) and replanted is sending up a new leaf, as is the ‘mother’ plant, with several shoots. This appears to be a useful method of propagation, as the seeds didn’t come up.
Speaking of not coming up, I just learned that the Trillium seeds don’t break surface the first year, only the second, although there are apparently a few ways to speed this up…it takes 5-7 yrs for some trillium to bloom. So I shouldn’t throw them out if they don’t sprout. I collected some pods and put them in the fridge. A few pods have already been eaten up by ants, but I got most of them
first. I put some in the ground now, and I’ll put some in the ground later and some in a pot that I can move into different environments to try and speed up the sprouting process.
Gaillardia below. They bloom in August through November:
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