Cleaning up the DVR, discovered gardening related content on Colbert that I missed last week.
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Craziest F#?king Thing I’ve Ever Heard – Fir Tree Lung | ||||
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Month: May 2009
Iconic bridge
Son Nathan is on a month-long adventure in China. He posted this iconic bridge picture on his Facebook page. I’m sure I’ve seen it before. But what’s up with that firetower-like structure in the background.
Drumstick primula and some other spring flowers
One of my favorites …
Mertensia
Epimedium
Frittilaria
Rescued tulips
There are always a lot of forced tulips around the office in winter. Most people compost them when the peter out. I rescue the pots and stick the bulbs in the ground the following fall. Most folks think that’s ridiculous, a wasted effot. But my rescued tulip patch continues to grow.
Some more rescued tulips in bud.
These were ‘store bought’.
‘Surfeit of yellow’
A few years ago, I read an authoritative book on perennials published circa 1955. It panned a plant (maybe Lysimachia punctata) as merely contributing to the ‘surfeit of yellow’ that comes with spring. Like Nan over at Hayefield (Hello Yellow) the yellows and ‘ serious chartreuse’ of this time of year are warm and welcome.
Caltha palustris. Note deer that Jade did not chase away.
A patch of artemisia, the maple leafing out, the neighbor’s willow, tulips at the base of the maple, and those things that kind of look like Doronicums (Leopard’s bane) coming up in the lawn.
Close-up of the artemisia. It grows dull as the season progresses.
