Posted on May 13, 2022May 13, 202205/13/2022 garden checkup Sweet basil seedlings. Butterfly milkweed is up in the backyard too but hasn’t flowered yet (same as front yard). Yellow flax still blooming! It’s annual, so I hope the seeds like it enough here. Whitlow-wort gone to seed. Another native annual from TX home. False gaura that I planted from potted last night is doing well. Texas verbena has bloomed! It’s a perennial. The rattlebox had adorable seed pods as promised. The Rocky mountain bee plant from the botany club plant sale is blooming! There were ants at the blooms. The Phacelia is really fun. The prairie bluet is flowering a bit. I’m worried since it’s early that this means it’s not happy. However, it’s a perennial, so hopefully it will do its thing now and be less worried next year. The twice-moved yucca is making new little leaves! This yucca is in the shade which I figure is probably okay at this age. Many plants seem to like to have nurse plants. The baby winecups are starting to get true leaves. Second year for this mystery plant with no blooms. It does have a square stem. Abby suggested Monarda, which I did seed here at one point, so fingers crossed!! Slippery silk beans and several other varieties are up!! The two leaf senna didn’t have a lot of roots when I planted it from a pot last night. So, I put two containers of water so it would gradually keep it damp for now so it can get established. It’s my only sprout from the seed and I love this plant! It’s a host for Cloudless Sulphur butterflies.
Posted on March 23, 2022April 10, 2022Signs of life Cat greets morning sun, waiting for his Doggie to return inside. Lemon balm herb reemerging. Mystery seedlings in the prickly pear planter. EDIT: These are baby anise hyssop (Agastache)!! Compare the seedlings on the prairiemoon.com website. A speckled mystery seedling in the prickly pear planter. Another mystery. Tiny mystery. Probably mare’s tail seedlings? Probably white avens seedling? In the cactus planter, this Escobaria missouriensis and its smaller sibling are doing well. I think this is a winecup rosette. Hurrah! Don’t know why it didn’t bloom last year, but I’m glad one survived from two falls ago. Whitlow-wort transplant is going to seed. May it come back next year!
Posted on March 5, 2022March 5, 2022Survival both short term and long term The Mexican plum dug from Mom and Dad’s yard last summer is budding! (The metal across it is the flag I have to not lose it.) The prairie parsley also from home is still alive. Ditto for the whitlow-wort. It’s an annual, but I hope it will reseed. The smaller whitlow-wort is growing through its mud. This is something just sprouting. I have a label nearby that says greeneyes. Mom does this have the right leaves?? I also do have a lot of ironweed in this area.
Posted on February 26, 2022February 26, 2022Cold day stratification adventures Phacelia from Native Seed Search is sprouting wildly. Cleome serrulata from Victory Seeds also sprouting! Whitlow-wort from home is adapting nicely it seems.
Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022A weekend field trip home Negative covid rapid tests meant we were safe to travel south to Texas! Annual bluets Controlled burns on the LBJ national grasslands were visible by smoke. Briar! Gracie! A hackberry tree having a long term discussion with the big mesquite tree. The big old mesquite tree. Draba cuneifolia Mom documents our dispersal of native plants. Heading back north to Oklahoma, an interesting juxtaposition of old and new energy.