What a great summer, one that actually existed. November now well on its way, it’s time to accept that summer is over.
Most of the fall work is done – the dead-heading, pruning, digging up, sowing and planting/transplanting. Many new seeds bought at the native plant sale and sown outside in the yard and containers, such as mariposa lillies and other eastern Washington species (dry,hot summer and cold snowy winter), but no sense in listing those until they actually germinate next spring. I did plant out many one-year bulbs of small camas seedlings from last year, which makes me wonder: lots of authors advise you to leave those in the container an extra year, which results in larger bulbs but fewer of them than at this stage. So, will my numerous plantings of larger numbers of younger,smaller bulbs earlier result in more plants overall, or not? I guess time will tell. Other bulbs from last year include more small camas (dark blue-purple). hookers onion (rose pink), two kinds of light blue camas and Ookow, or Brodiaea Congesta (pink-purple).
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