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Some more daffodils have opened.
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And I'm still impatiently watching the buckeye leaf out slowly, day by day.
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Spring came early for some kind of digging creature/varmint that comes around at night to vex the garden. This is an anti-digging strategy I came up with. People sometimes stick plastic spoons in the ground to deter squirrels and such... I cut up some unused nursery stakes and poked them in the ground around recent additions.
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(I'd apply
Critter Ridder, but I suspect wet, rainy weather renders it ineffective, and it's expensive.)
These
Ipheion uniflorum do not come back for me from year-to-year like they're supposed to. I buy a bag of them from time to time instead. They're okay. Buying a bag of them for $4 once a year is kind of a habit now.
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Calif. native geophyte
Zigadenus fremontii is new to the g this year. I very much hope this one will come back again next year.
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The red-flowered
Delphinium cardinale from Southern California sure did! I'm very happy about it. All three of them have come back this year in fact, and I recently added a fourth.
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Unfortunately, however, I might be losing
Leucospermum. Or at least half of it. This half looks terrible.
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This half not so terrible.
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I'll just have to wait and see, I guess.
Speaking of waiting and seeing, in the seedlings department...
I divided these
Rudbeckia triloba today. My first Rudbeckia. I saw this plant with flowers still on it in November in Berkeley and I thought that would be nice for me too.
Echium pininana--these have come a long way since you last saw them on
Feb-4. These grow into 10' spikes, straight up. Straight up is the hope anyway. I wouldn't want them to lean. Not sure when I should plant them out, but if this rate of progress continues, I guess that question will answer itself.
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Any idea what this could be? I remember throwing some seed here... I hate it when I do that.
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These are its seed leaves:
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And I planted out all this
Symphotrichum chilensis from a pinch of seeds I collected in Big Sur last November. This could very well turn out to be an invasive plant in my garden--both by spreading underground parts, and future seedlings--so I'll have to keep an eye on it.
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[Not] texas bluebonnet, from
Christopher C.![Texas bluebonnet](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sGJH1whCsKfbRrybRBGDUo-HVFTZGyt7wrTmJyi9CTGmGM4yXaK35ChW9lTydtbImatLJIVGaavKK4OWO-lJx1P15fiwR8X_e95ZqS4ZWslyFKZYyNPkUqot0afQ4O0m0=s0-d)
It was looking very yellow in the pot, so I thought I better plant it out in real soil. It's always possible that Texas bluebonnet would be happier in Texas than San Francisco. I guess we'll find out. [But this is
Lupinus polyphyllus, so that theory is meaningless.]
Solanum lypersicum 'Mountain Princess'. This is my furthest-along tomato, a 45-DTM variety from Baker Creek.
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Tomatoes I'm also growing this year: '4th of July', 'Gold Nugget', 'Early Cherry', 'Stupice'.
Soon enough, everything will get planted out in the vegetable garden. For now, I still have a few winter snap peas.
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I love the emergent chaos in the garden this time of year.