Well they’ve gone and “improved” the website again. I’ll just be brief until the updates come
BRIEFLY(!), things are happenin’ early this year, I think. Most bulbs coming up though Chocolate lily is just erupting in its clumps, and some of the recently purchased Fawn Lilllies. Most of the perennials are at least poking up if not leafed out. Poor Delphimium, three plants coming up great to ~1 1/2 foot with flower heads and two plants were attacked by slugs, with partial destruction. Too bad it isn’t poisonous to slugs like it is for mammals. A few Fawn Lilllies are just starting to bloom as are Shooting Star pulchellum, Douglas’ Grass Widow, and some shrubs: Indian Plum, all the Archtostaphylos plants like Hairy Manzanita and Kinnickinnick, all the Currants – yellow, red and wax.
Found a couple of plants along a path where the hot tub removal dudes had trampled…..I’d just planted a bunch of seeds and had a few smaller plants along that path, and am waiting to see what comes up (lower back yard from the hot tub deck to the street below…and they were all Samoan dudes!). We didn’t have anything valuable lost, I’m just curious, and also I’d have to replant/sow if things didn’t show up. A couple of Trilliums came up, including Chlorpetalum, which has pretty speckled leaves and fragrant flowers, and a planting of Trillium seeds from three years ago.
Ducks have arrived a few days early, actually the last week of February! They didn’t come back until last week, though it was still early, around the 10th, and it is usually the 18th or later. They are scare-dy ducks, though, and are too skittish. We used to be able to mess with them standing near the pond, now they fly away when we open the door! Jeez!!
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