Not a milkweedNot a milkweed?Maybe a milkweed Known milkweed (probably viridiflora)The skinny adult leaves of known milkweed. New book The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants by Diboll and Cox mentions many milkweeds first adult leaves are skinny even if the eventual adult leaves are broad. Either that or I got the species wrong. One of two Blackfoot daisy survived earwigs and is now growing flower buds and a few new leaves!Perennial coreopsis begins!Briar was pretty miffed it rained HARD most of the day. So before our walk she curled up in disgust right on my big Liatris mucronata from home. Thanks. The Mexican Sage from Judy is up!A sedge?Partridge peaOldplainsmanMysteryCaliche planter babiesThe tomatoes have gotten a bit sunburnt from past rain with sunlight after, so this time I flicked water off and put them in a less intensely sunny spot. Trying to get them hardened off for planting. Like Briar, Shacks was disappointed by rain and not being out. Paula brought him some favorite juicy grass and he loved it.
I put out two of our three pots of Inland Sea Oats! I also moved the all-red prairie coneflower (Ratibida columnifera) out front to the rain garden and a bunch of Strophostyles (fuzzybeans) everywhere. Culinary sage is at peak bloom in the rainbow garden!Missouri Fluttermill Primrose is very happy after that rain a few days ago!This mystery plant is in the rock garden. I’m hoping it might be a Scutellaria. Penstemon grandiflorus, planted last year from Prairie moon nursery, looks like it wants to bloom this year!
The Agastache survived with its defensive ring of petroleum jelly. Gonna have to go buy another tube. The Blackfoot daisy made it overnight!The second daisy made it too! There are fewer earwigs in the rock garden. Paula pointed out last night that our other agastaches that got completely chomped by earwigs are putting up new shoots. Here’s the second one also having a tiny sprout.
Past me ordered plants in the winter!Pets very much liked the box. It had good smells. Here Gram steps right in before I’ve unpacked the crinkle paper. Good thing there was cardboard protecting the plants too.
Gram moved to sit on the crinkle paper and smells one of two Blackfoot daisies. Briar observes. We put the daisies in the rock garden. I had one in the backyard once when we first moved here but I think it was too wet. The rock garden is the driest hottest spot in the yard.
The other plant we got was an orange Agastache. The damn invasive human-introduced earwig horde has already started eating it, so we are trying petroleum jelly around the base. It has worked for tomatoes before but didn’t work on a different Agastache recently, so we’ll go back out before bed and check again.
Mystery plants in rock garden. Mystery plant in rock garden. In the right place for where I put scarlet pea but maybe too pointy leaves? We shall see. I think a Houstonia bluet and a baby ponysfoot. This is in the right place for fuzzy beans. I suspect this is also a fuzzy bean (Strophostyles sp).
My colleague gave me these delicious tiny tomatoes from her sister’s garden east of here. She said it’s a hybrid between tommy toe and another variety and has bred true for two ish years! I’m saving some!A yellow iris by the rock garden. Polenta with cranberry beans from Bean Club and fancy sausage from California. Salad includes farm share peppers and the main mean also included summer squash from the farm share. A cooked cranberry bean. They were very creamy in texture!The cranberry bean broth was very savory. The Chef laughed at us taking a picture. Here’s some of the remaining cranberry beans. They have a tan base but occasionally the red speckles and stripes turn the bean almost completely red!You can see they are nice chunky big beans. Larger than the average pinto.