Blue flax seedlings are getting tiny new leaves.Possibly a false gaura! It looks different from the common volunteers!Two Datura wrightii seedlings!A senna hopeful.It is actually a bit rough, so maybe this is the rough leaf sunflower??A redbud I potted up last year.The Euphorbia from Mom and Dad’s house is perking back up.Roman chamomile did well while I was gone!Lettuce and bok choy doing good.Two more fluttermill Missouri primrose seedlings up!The horse crippler cactus transplanted from Mom’s garden.I’ve put a drip on the ground plum (actually a legume) since yesterday, as it seems to be having a rough transplant. This is also into the rock garden.In the rainbow garden, a mystery seedling. Maybe two leaf senna???Butterfly milkweed is coming up in rainbow garden.Maybe another butterfly milkweed? It’s in the right place.A single cilantro seedling. The only one in the yard. In that crack.A winecup from two years ago.Purple prairie clover from two years ago.Maybe Liatris leaves? It’s in the right spot.Another mystery seedling.Tall vervain is perking up a bit.Ten petal anemone are perking up too!Greeneyes getting bigger!My blue stars are blooming!Salvia azurea leaves.
Bladderpod with small native beeFor someone who is probably growing this fellow’s relative, I sure have a hard time identifying cacti. I believe it’s Coryphantha sulcata based on having one central spine per areole. Here’s my baby.Mom looks at photos she is taking.Mom takes more photos.It’s a magnificent creek!Bubbles on moss.Neat rocks the creek goes through.A mournful thyris moth. We saw more in redbud flowers. I think it may have been getting water here, because if you zoom in you can see its proboscis out.A cricket frog!Another big view. You can see a redbud in the woods.Englemann daisies growing above the creek! They’re much smaller than the ones in my garden. Presumably less water.A white bush honeysuckle (a native one, Lonicera albiflora) branches over the creek.This is probably a hawthorn shrub. Thanks to Abby for the suggestion that helped me look it up! There seem to be a lot of very similar species.Here’s the probably-hawthorn trunk.This seems familiar.Ah ha! A Missouri fluttermill primrose! Note the red speckled and sort of square long flower bud.An old seed pod at the base of the primrose plant. The leaves are much less red than the ones in my garden.Ceanothus herbaceus, redroot or New Jersey tea.Here are the leaves. I am growing its relative C. americanus (also called New Jersey tea) in my garden, from seeds bought from prairiemoon.com.Blue flax! It’s probably Linum pratense, which is an annual. Apparently it does intergrade with the perennial Linum lewisii which is what I planted in my yard.This flax hasn’t bloomed but you can see the leaves are very like the L. lewsii ones in my yard.Another Englemann daisy demonstrates how adaptable this species is, growing up on the barrens away from the creek.Just to the left, just below the middle of this picture is another fluttermill.Cymopterus, a very early blooming wildflower, starts to go to seed.I think this must be a much younger fluttermill Missouri primrose that has already bloomed.This is prairie burnet. I’d never noticed it before. Thanks to Abby for the identification!Yellow star grass (not actually a grass).Another fluttermill primrose, this time in a big beautiful mound.The face of abandonment.Another dog who didn’t get to go.
The Chef took very good care of the garden while I was on vacation and we got very, very, very, very lucky to get rain and no hail in our part of town. I’m poking at my potted plants right now. I’ll do another post later with the ground plants and raised beds and permanent planters.
Echineacea pallida left out all winter sprouted well (seeds from prairie moon nursery) a while back. I put some of the seedlings in the ground when I left and I’ll plant these last ones soon.The Chimayó peppers from Judy grew almost all these adult leaves. When I left each had one small adult leaf.Hungarian heart tomatoes to replace the one that got killed by the late frost. The seedlings emerged in the plant window so I put them outside yesterday when I got back.I repotted this eggplant right before I left. It has grown a lot. The other one I repotted hasn’t grown as much.Finally the culinary sage is starting to sprout! The only one that was up before now has an adult leaf.These passionvines are the ones where I just smooshed the fruit into a pot and left them out all winter.Liatris mucronata has a hilarious long leaf. I had another one in a bigger pot but it seems to be dying.This yucca now has three leaves! I also planted one in the ground when I left, because it was in the relatively shallow sprouting tray, and it is still alive in the ground.Planted the other tray of green milkweed (Asclepias virida) before I left and will plant these ones soon.Volunteer redbud dug from front raised beds. Eventually I’ll put it in the ground here in backyard. I don’t think it grew any taller, so hopefully it’s working on roots.I now have at least three baby columbines in the sprouting tray and one out in the yard. The package said direct seeding in fall was best, even over stratifying manually, so that’s what I did even for the trays. These babies look a lot like clover, especially when smaller, so I’ve had to be careful.
