No real snow except a dusting one morning. I shouldn’t complain, I HATE snow when I have to drive to work, which seems like always when it snows.The weather this weekend is 50’s and with lots of sun, especially Saturday. Beats the hell out of the weather in the Midwest and east coast these last two weeks (or ever, frankly), mostly freezing temps and lots of snow.
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Here, on the other hand, spring is peeking its head out in the form of new buds and herbaceous growth- many Shooting Stars, tons of Brodiaea , Ookow /Brodiaea Congesta , and this may be the first year we see what all the White Camas looks like…the 2009 seedlings are starting to come up (as are the light blue camasses, as usual). Now coming up are new Columbian Larkspur/delphinium and another new plant, an anemone. Lots of irises are ready to come up, the new ones are Setosa/blue flag ( deep purple, chartreuse leaves), Innominata (yellow), Chrysophylla (white-yellow with purple markings), and the newest , Iris Bracteata (deep yellow), and there are two Iris Missouriensis ( dark purple, blue-green leaves), plants which are from the northern Rockies…..we’ve had these for a while but they have died out or not done well, so I moved two to more forgiving environments and they seem to be OK.
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Seedlings include Lomatium dissectum, which is Desert Parsley. It is actually quite a nutritious and a beneficial plant, I may propagate that for consumption, not just for the pretty yellow flowers. It is a new player in the yard since last yer. Dave was sure the one planting we had bought had died, but research showed it is supposed to die back in July…it is coming back up now, as are the seeds we bought.
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Self-sown (in their original planters) are Sea Blush/Plectritis Congesta and Small-flowered Blue eyed Mary, both of which I covered with plastic bags to protect from frost and both of which are doing well. Not sure I’ll be able to pull this off a third year, but it’s nice not to have to replant these just to put the same plants in. I have tons of Sea blush (pink flowers) seeds , but no other Blue-eyed Mary.
Ahhh, my little chickadees! Not quite finis, but you get the idea…..
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