What’s up this week? I FINALLY found a Trillium Chloropetalum var. Gigantum at Kruckenbergs garden, which is the one with fragrant deep red/brown and straight-edged trillium flowers instead off white ones (that we have about three of and some maturing seedlings of). I planted it near my maturing off white Chloropetalum and T. Ovatum seedlings in the back yard, that will form an interesting and big Trillium cluster, since the Ovatum flowers are bright white that transition to mauve,and the leaves are plain green heart shaped, and the cholorpetalum are heavily dappled and rounded. I also found a couple of new PINK fawn lilies there, and planted those with some of my white and yellowish Fawn lily plants and with an off white trillium. Maturing bunch of pink Fawn lillies are planted with some developing white ones – mix them up a bit for color
Leafy bracked aster is coming up, so far not ravaged by slugs or eaten by voles. In fact I haven’t seen slugs all winter
Chocolate lily up everywhere. I think there are a bunch of Indian Paintbrush (or something) coming up in one of the myriad piles of pumice that I left around the yard, to mark my sowed seeds……I wish I’d marked this one spot, but you know, you can’t have literally hundreds of white plastic markers sticking up all over the yard all winter and not let it get to you! I have to leave these seedlings alone, I’ve been known to pull up I. P. Seedlings by mistake. There are a bunch of bulbs seeds of some kind coming up, either blue or white brodiaea. Desert Parsley (yellow) and Oregon Geranium seeds are all opening up. Maybe a few ( or if they are real, a lot) Indian paintbrush seedlings in the pot. I transplanted three small Yellow Desert Daisy seedlings into the newer ROCK GARDEN INNIS ARDEN, which is to say our new rock garden:
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