Some early shooting star coming up as well as the Brodiaeas, mostly the blue harvest Brodiaea. Some seeds germinating at the west yard that I think are Gillia, and I out a glass bowl cloche over them. They seem to like that . Also put one over some of the short purple asters and an old, non thriving stem of Wild ginger that I thought was dead a long time ago, it has one leaf and some shoots to protect from the slugs (fast forward two years to 2017, it’s a big healthy plant now, go figure).
Two new Rattlesnake Plantains I squirreled from Lopez island, along with their dirt and moss. They seem OK so far with some new growth. Also, a couple of plugs of Rattlesnake plantain popped up near a small Red Flowering Current, I must have planted them there long ago. So that’s three sites. Previous attempts have all failed, I think for versus reasons, sometimes it was the tentative health of the bought plants.
Seeds sewn this fall, in the middle of November, were about eight or so plants that I collected seeds from that I don’t have that many of, or at least want to increase:
In planter pots: Pink Fawn Lily, Oregon Fawn Lily (off white), Wild Blue Flax (two pots), Hookers Onion, Yellow Avalanche Lily (fawn lily), Common (small) Camas,
In the yard, around other plants:Camas: white, small purple, tall blue, white and magenta Shooting stars, trillium (very few this year), Brodiaeas, Lamium /Yellow Desert Parsley, Penstemons, Ookow.
We are going to have a minor landscaping project done in the front yard, which has never been addressed and is now quite an eyesore. In waiting for a particular landscaper, I ended up doing some of the tear out work, which should save us some money, anyway! I tore out the mahonia patch that was taking over the front yard. For this project, I am going to have large stone steps added from our patio up to the walkway, possibly in two spots. That is the route we usually take on foot anyway, and it will clean up the area for a true rock garden. Just hope the moles and voles aren’t able to mess with them too much.
Below, pix of the before and after (added pic of fall 2016):
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