Pretty much most things need to be poking up by now or they’re not going to….except a few things like tiger and leopard lillies. It looks like all the plants I transplanted, propagated or bought last year have made it through the winter. This includes a couple of pretty Fools Huckleberrys, making a total of four. And our real native High Cranberry, the Vibernum Edule. We had to take several non-native ones out that someone had sold us years ago, replaced them with another few which also turned out to be non native. We FINALLY ( we think) have determined through exhaustive research of the flowers, found the real thing, we bought ONE.
I have many, many fawn lillies around now, though most are still young and only leaves, in a couple of years it will be quite pretty, meadow-like. Most of these I have propagated from seed, but some are mid-range age and should bloom soon. I don’t know if any of them will be pink, since I mixed the seeds together with the white and off white ones, but so far none of the pink seeds that I planted in a pot have come up. Though, the pink plants that I do have are vigorous and one has now produced quite a bunch, oh, and a whole lot o’ trilliums, too.
Now blooming: trilliums, Fawn lillies, Silk flower, Darba Incerta, Monks hood and some of the Blue eyed Mary in planters. ABOUT to bloom?: Chocolate Lilly, some Penstemons, Pussy toes, some Bear Grasses and some more fawn lilies.
Too early for the flowers of Columbines, Lupines, asters, irises, and for the sunflowers: Mules ears, Arrow leafs, and Gaillardia, though the leaves are coming up.
Huckleberries…..we replenished our supply of deciduous last year. I don’t think all the ones we had were planted in good areas, except for the two thriving red huckleberries. Some plants were lost to hot dry weather or just never thrived, and these survivors I transplanted to better places this spring (plant rehab). I’d forgotten that id bought two groundcover Vaccinium Membranaceums last year, so now we have three of those part shade plants, and two more sun loving ground cover Vaccinium Deliciosums for the front yard. These are all good black huckleberries. We added three taller Vaccinium Parviflorum (upright red huckleberry) to the lower back yard so we have six total now. We also also have an older Vaccinium Ovalifoium which is upright/deciduous/black huckleberry, which I transplanted and it is in rehab. In addition to the deciduous, there are a bunch of evergreen huckleberries, in various stages of health and size….some have been crowded or shaded but they are part of the bird-scape and provide winter forage.
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