I ordered plants from a new to me nursery, Missouri Wildflowers Nursery. Hmm box with ok smells?Gram came running to see if he could have the box. “Hello little brother “The packing by this nursery was quite clever! Shredded paper mostly over the rosettes or dormant pots. They also kindly marked the plants that were dormant. A few other species had low winter leaves (spiderwort) or rosettes (asters, pussytoes). Even the dormant plants had happy roots!The soil held together with roots but weren’t aggressively bound in. Paula found a small cicada larva under the oak tree while planting!We also uncovered an ancient Nylabone from Briar’s youth. She was unimpressed.
The greeneyes is starting to bloom in the backyard prairie! This grew from seeds that I put out a year, maybe two years, ago.Hmm… What is this brown lumpy thing on the butterfly milkweed?An exciting, dare I say unexpected, find by Paula… The Unexpected Cycnia moth caterpillar!I spotted this second Unexpected Cycnia caterpillar on a different plant a few inches away. Apparently they only eat milkweeds, so we are very pleased to find one in the orange butterfly milkweed section of the rainbow garden. It’s also our 150th yard species on inaturalist!A dead cicada. No fun buzzes but Briar hoped.Watermelon in the farm share this week. Yum!!
Will Rogers Zinnias came back true.A little Solanaceae volunteered in the rainbow garden.It conveniently has a yellow flower.Paula started a batch of kimchi fermenting. Walking onions for the green onion.Who is thisThis friend not want to play