Category: Transplant

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10/02/2023 feeding the world

Bright yellow composite flower stalks are fluffy with small blooms. They are in a rusted steel planter.
Probably Solidago rigidiuscula (thanks for ID, Mom!). This was an accidental but fortunate stowaway in the caliche from TX home!
Big arcs of flower covered Maximilian sunflowers are in bright sunlight in front of shaded and dark leaved Datura in the background.
Heavy work, feeding the neighborhood. The maxes hadn’t fully dropped yet here like they did after the rain.
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09/27/2023 happier in new spot

Last weekend, we moved the Mexican Sage (Salvia leucantha) from Judy. It had been in the very dry side yard for about two summers and kept wilting. Here by the garage it will still get sun, but stays just a little less dry. This species is drought tolerant but not quite our-side-yard drought tolerant as the rosemary or Maximilian sunflowers or garlic chives.
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06/11/2023 straggler photos

A seedling Virginia creeper. This is by the dining room window.
At the rescue prairie today I took a clump of Cladonia (probably C. peziziforma?) reminder: we only took wild organisms because the land is slated to be built on, and with permission.
And some adjacent moss. Both the lichen and the moss were on sand at the base of a tree, shaded, so I put them in the concrete blocks (for good drainage) in the shady end of the prairie.
Paula has worked hard to remove bermudagrass and other non native intruders from our buffalograss at the edge of our property. She seeded it a few days ago. Today I connected the soaker hose that she had laid out.
The hose was a bit too long so I looped the extra by the Mexican sage and showy milkweed.
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06/10/2023 baby cactus repotting

Paula felt the baby Coryphantha sulcata cacti were not getting good drainage in their sprouting trays.
So, she repotted them into slightly bigger pots that all have drain holes!
Gram helped by laying in the plant window, taking over Shackleton’s spot temporarily.
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05/10/2023 Tuberous Texas dandelions!

We noticed a nearby construction site had Pyrrhopappus (called Texas dandelions, false dandelions, or desert-chicory) right where they were going to get run over and graded. We got permission to dig some up to rescue them. This plant is from the first night of digging, blooming the next day (05/10).
You can see we discovered these were the tuber-bearing perennial species on 05/09/2023 (the first digging night).
You can see here Briar standing just outside the disturbed soil. My hand is pointing at one of the plants.
You can see the tubers for which this perennial species is named! The other species of false dandelions are annuals or biennials. I assume most of the ones we dug, if not all, are perennials based on that every one where we cleared the soil off had a tuber.
We got quite a few from the edge of the construction area. The neighboring land has more of the plants so I imagine they will repopulate.
05/11/2023 this is one of the transplanted dandelions. They have been blooming!
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05/11/2023 advances

I enjoy how tiny the baby Astragalus leaves are. This is one of two. The other is in the front yard.
Sedum nutallii from Jeanne is thriving and considering blooming!
This mystery seedling is in a container where I planted silverleaf nightshade. We shall see.
One of the rescued Pyrrhopappus tuberosus is blooming!
Assorted seedlings from this county. All mixed together so we’ll see what comes up!
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05/01/2023 planting before rain and checking on growth

Holding a bit of Sherardia bluet by a possible globemallow for comparison.
A plantain blooming
Plantain with spike moss from Jeanne
Silphium radula from a kind plant friend!
Asclepias incarnata too!
Transplanting Asclepias viridiflora (we think) from pot into ground. Long root! It’s still alive almost a week later (05/06/2023).