Scanner art by Craig Cramer, gardening & more
When I posted a few days ago about the snow destroying my favorite spring ephemeral (Iris histrioides ‘Katharine Hodgkin’), I forgot that I still had these images in the camera from just before the snow.
Couldn’t decide which view I liked best, so here are three.
This one is PhotoShop filtered. But you can’t really see the effect without looking at the 1200-pixel version.
Last fall, I reported about a project carried out by students in Bill Miller’s herbaceous perennials class at Cornell planting a bulb labyrinth at our Bluegrass Lane research center. Here’s what it looked like just before the bulbs went in.
With temps up in the 60s today and another photo opp at the facility, I wandered out to see if anything was poking up. I got nothin’ but what you’d expect during mud season:
Bill says that since the bulbs are newly planted, they’re flowering will likely be a little late this first season. But we’re planning to open the facility so the public can view and walk the labyrinth on Mothers Day and perhaps the Sundays before and after.
Stay tuned for more images as the labyrinth grows over the next few weeks.