Our baby ferns from spores!! Woolly lip fern (Cheilanthes tomentosa) theoretically should be fine in drier habitats, but these young plants have been very sensitive to removal of the container lid. So over the last few weeks I’ve been opening just a corner at a time to get them used to regular air without dying of shock. They curl up less and less each day with increasing exposure!
Continue reading “03/21/2025 wooly lip fern hardening off continues”03/17/2025 leaves pushing up
Excited to see some newer friends emerging.
Continue reading “03/17/2025 leaves pushing up”Tomato season
All seedlings have been diligently protected from Shackleton the cat this year. We do not trust him after last year’s grazing incident.
Continue reading “Tomato season”02/16/2025 prairie grazing!
Briar likes to eat some of our prairie grasses sometimes, she’s no herd of bison. This winter we’ve been meaning to escalate into a full trim. The weather today was crisp, clear, and not too windy sheltered by the house, so we did the cuts! This is in hopes that we’ll get more species from past seeding events coming up.
Continue reading “02/16/2025 prairie grazing!”02/08/2025 new rain lily!!!
The sun came out this afternoon so we were tempted away from our plant spreadsheets to move some friends around.
Continue reading “02/08/2025 new rain lily!!!”Baby fern “hardening off” to world
Hardening off is getting indoor grown plants ready for the big world. Sometimes for indoor seedlings I’ll put a fan on them to preview the experience of wind. These ferns haven’t got that treatment yet because we have them in a little container sealed for humidity, but I figured it was time to get them ready for a spring debut into the world.
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This is one of our favorite native grasses!
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I sprinkled seeds around last winter and one came up near the bird bath and blackberries!
Continue reading “09/24/2024 drummond’s aster”08/02/2024 first flowers ever on Passiflora incarnata var. alba
We were kindly given seeds of this white flowered wild variety of the native passionvine, from north eastern Oklahoma. Two plants made it and this year one had its first blooms!
Continue reading “08/02/2024 first flowers ever on Passiflora incarnata var. alba”07/28/2024 partridge pea
A friend gave us some of her baby partridge peas in the spring and they are growing up and blooming! This species is an annual so hopefully they will come back.
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