We have been blessed by the garden gods with an excellent summer again this year. Elements that make up this type of summer include long stretches of sunny days, maybe some fog in hype morning, and rain about every 3 weeks. The plants meanwhile love it, and they are thriving to show their appreciation.
We have a couple of new plants growing, including healthy looking foliage of Scarlet Gilia, and a few baby starts of Bog gentian that we need to put in the newest, third bog area (two others are in a raised planter structure and part of the pond). I also have healthy looking starts of orange flowered Globemallow, River Lupine, Monkshood and the taller, red flowered Common Paintbrush, but I won’t plant them out till fall so I don’t have to struggle to keep them watered and alive.
Lots of seeds collected, mostly ones I want to plant. I collected a bunch of native “sunshine mix” for Sarah, which is camasses, Iris tenax, Nodding onion, Sea thrift, red columbine and a few others. Selected ones include two pods of Trilliim Chloropetalum, Harsh Paintbrush, Ookow, White Brodiea, purple brodiaea, white Camas, White and pink Shooting star, triteliaea (purple), Wild Ginger, Bear Grass, hookers onion, small camas, chocolate lily, Fawn lily, tiger lily, leopard lily, pussytoes, Geum Aveum, Desert Parsley/Lomatium
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The squirrels and Jays have just about finished off the hazelnuts. Too bad it will be another ten years or so till the Garry Oak produces acorns, it’s supposed to take about twenty years.
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