One new, one transplanted!
Continue reading “03/31/2024 sprouts”02/22/2024 budding time
Spring is springing!
Continue reading “02/22/2024 budding time”11/05/2023 late but clearing for garlic
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06/11/2023 roots
Unless you’re taking a herbarium specimen or moving stuff in the garden, we often don’t see how deep some native plant roots are. Today I helped two friends rescue plants from a remnant prairie that is about to be dozed and built on. (We dug with permission.)
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Spiderworts, native perennial dayflower, an all yellow Gaillardia, fleabane, western horse nettle, and Heterotheca (I think?) all came up easily with a sharpshooter shovel. Little bluestem has very deep roots but I think they are supposed to be okay to divide. Fern acacia (I think??) had a longer root (over a foot for a 6” tall plant) that may have broken.
04/06/2023 Black Mesa Nature Preserve afternoon walk
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04/05/2023 departure
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04/04/2023 day two of Boiling Springs State Park
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03/12/2023 Texas buckeye
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03/03/2023 regrets later?
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The excavation of a path and that weird berm
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