Equil,
I was not posting at 3/4 am, it was clearly closer to 6 am. lol. I was up early to meet a deadline. Of course posting on this thread was a delaying tactic. Lovely photo of the shooting stars. Mine only form leaves the second year.
enya,
I think that the ginger is "Eco decor". Sunny Borders has "ED" listed as a Carolina native produced by Don Jacobs from Eco Gardens when I googled it. There does seem to be a Asarum naniflorum "Eco Decor" that is a Chinese native with solid green leaves. I E-mailed Eco Gardens to try to identify mine and find out if it is native( it was marked as native when I purchased it) . I also have Asarum minor," Honeysong" which is a Southeast native.
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spring ephemerals
I have to confess I have a broken sleeping pattern and get up at odd hours sometimes.
semp,
Thank you for the info. I'll check where I can find this ginger. I have a tiny Asarum splenders that
survived the winter with no protection, but seems to be awfully slow. I really want to add more Asarums.
I am working toward a lush shady garden on the north side of the house. The area needs lots of work.
So I am in "build the plant collection" right now for this area. I have some ferns, pulmonaria, arisaemas
and epimediums there. All plants are starters but I have enough hight variation once they get established
and grow to their mature size. What I am lacking is ground hugging plants. Asarums being a category on
my list to add.
The times display weird sometimes. It looked to me as if you might have been up in the middle of the night. Delay tactics, I'm an expert at those myself.
What really messes me up is when I fall asleep too early. Every once in a while I fall asleep in the family room at around 7pm (where my husband leaves me because he claims I do not budge or respond when he tries to wake me up). I can guarantee I will be up pacing the dark halls here by 2am to 3am every time that happens. That totally trashes me for the next day because I normally get up by 6am and there is no way I can go back to sleep which means I am a zombie in need of toothpicks to hold my eyes open by noon the following day.
I just got an order from Prairie Moon which is one of my favorite nurseries that I've been ordering from for many years and will continue to order from. You all are going to think I'm nuts but I ordered Zigodenus elegans. I'm sort of excited about those. I also ordered more Aster Macrophyllus and Cryptotaenia canadensis. Then I ordered Dioscorea villosa. Now you all probably think I've lost it by ordering Wild Yam but I'm excited about that plant too. They sent me free Aster furcatus which is indigenous to where I garden but on the rare side so that's got me all excited too. I don't quite know where to plant those though. I need to do a little research on them.
I have a 5 year old who has very strong attachment to me and demands all my time after work. So I can only relax after he is asleep :) Can't do it every night as I used to.
I ordered seeds form Prairie Moon. Good to know that plants are good too.
Zigodenus elegans is exquisite! I read on the growing conditions: " The plant is a glacial relic which has remained after the retreat of the last Pleistocene ice sheets. It survives only in the shaded, north-facing dolomite bluffs in southern Missouri. "
Wow! You have the conditions to grow it in.
Er uh no... not exactly but... I am in a glacial retreat area so does that count for anything? It is documented as occurring naturally in other states as well as other areas other than that which you described for Missouri. I might be ok. We'll see.
I planted them on a gravelly (sp?) slope to a vernal creek that is shaded.
A common name for Zigadenus elegans is Death Camass. The plant is right up there in toxicity with Cicuta maculata which I also have growing on this property.
My favorite view of the empty lot next door. Trilliums, trilliums, trilliums...
These are the Shooting Star plants from which I got 6 new ones this spring.
Guess who is waking up.
enya,
I don't know how I missed your last 3 posts. I had this in my thread watcher. It's wonderful to see a whole group of trillium growing wild in an empty lot. The shooting stars are very pretty also. What is blooming in the last post?
I have seed pods forming on the merry bells and twin leaf.
Our trilliums are blooming and just found some bluets and yellowroot at the creek.
Everything is finally tking off.
Gosh the trills smell soooooooo wonderful!
Trilliums are in the right middleish corner by the pond.
I just realised this was an old thread,lol.
That's OK it is good to be reminded to look for these beauties.
Maybe you want to start a new thread for 2008
It is still early here or should I say spring is late , but I hope to have some photos when it gets mushroom hunting time.
I lost this thread. My last photo was of Showy orchid (Galearis spectabilis).
This year things are a bit delayed :(
Yes, it's time for the new thread from someone with fresh photos to start.
This message was edited Apr 10, 2008 5:17 PM