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!
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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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We had a lot of germination of Indigofera miniata this spring and around five individuals have survived to planting size and then nibbling by yard bunnies (one even grew back!).
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Two beautiful but subtle flowers are blooming now including the mysterious Late Figwort!
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Well I’m always surprised haha.
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More leaves, new flowers!
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I’m taking today and tomorrow off so I hope I can look around the garden a little more.
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As hoped, we got them seeded before rain. They’ve now had several inches of rain to support their summer growth!
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We got more rain overnight and I needed to smooth out the disturbed soil near the house foundation where we recently got piers. While I had the hoe out, I scraped out some little drainage ditches to pull some water away from the porch.
Continue reading “05/12/2024 infrastructure”05/11/2024 supposed to rain tonight sadly
Why sadly? Well, it’s good for the new plants I just put out because the forecast is pretty firm about rain, but it’s going to obscure possibilities for more of a rare G5 geomagnetic storm that resulted in the aurora borealis visible FROM OUR DRIVEWAY. Check out the view last night at Texas home on Mom’s blog too!
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