Posts Tagged ‘perrenials’
Color Brilliance
When I got home after the weekend, it was really dry around here. That made mowing a much less urgent line item on the to-do list. Then it rained on Monday, and suddenly everything got dramatically taller. Cyndie’s garden of perennials has become rather crowded.
The dianthus looks almost electric with its intensity of color in the sunlight.
The jewelweed has filled out to a point that it almost swallows the entrance to some of our pathways.
It has reached the point where I need to be trimming the branches encroaching on our trails as much as I need to be mowing grass, and I have yet to catch up with knocking down the growth under all of our fence lines.
Yesterday, I squeezed in a test ride on my bike to see if I’ve made any progress tightening fasteners to eliminate the bothersome clicking. The ride didn’t take long because the click is still there. Further troubleshooting will commence during the next period of daytime rain that occurs, which may be today, if the forecasts prove correct.
We have been informed by the weather service that there are elevated possibilities for severe storms in our area today. I’ll be watching the sky and compulsively checking the pretty colors on the radar to keep tabs on what’s coming our way… between periods of mowing and trail trimming, that is.
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Another Transplant
The woods up around our lake place are replete with the white and purple blossoms of wild trillium, which is such a beautiful sight. Just before we left to drive home yesterday, Cyndie’s nephew, Beck, helped her dig up a few of the plants for us to bring home. We hope to seed our woods for a shot at a similar magical landscape down here in a few years.
We tried to minimize the hours they were out of the ground by getting them planted as quickly as possible after we got home.
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I noticed in the second picture there is a worm, which is unfortunate, since, as I recently wrote, they are not trillium’s friend, because they consume the duff layer of decaying leaves and rob the soil of nutrients. I’m hoping our situation is not that extreme yet, and the two can coexist for some time.
I was so excited about the new plantings that I forgot to go check how the recently transplanted maple tree is getting along. Now we have two areas that I will be anxiously observing for signs of success.
There is such a variety of growth that springs forth in our woods every year, we are hopeful that our attempt to add trillium to it all will be met with success and the wonderful beauties will begin propagating unassisted in years to come.
Wish us luck!
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