Hope falls eternal
Sowing these seeds I ordered six months ago, I had to wonder: what the fuck was I thinking? 5 Romuleas? I have no idea. On the other hand, it made sense to order those from Silverhill, since they are unusual and hard to come by, unlike Ornithogalum. It's a mystery.
| Babiana villosa | Silverhill |
| Erythronium californicum 'White beauty' | paintbrush |
| Freesia alba x purple stripe | paintbrush |
| Freesia refracta | Silverhill |
| Geissorhiza splendidissima | Silverhill |
| Hesperantha coccinea | Silverhill |
| Lachenalia orchoides var. orchoides | Silverhill |
| Ornithogalum maculatum | Silverhill |
| Lilium bolanderi | Alplains |
| Romulea amoena | Silverhill |
| Romulea hirsuta var. hirsuta | Silverhill |
| Romulea monadelpha | Silverhill |
| Romulea sabulosa | Silverhill |
| Romulea unifolia | Silverhill |
posted by Anonymous at 4:08 PM
4 Comments:
I'll bet you subscribe to Rock Garden Quarterly.
I would love to, but then I wouldn't be able to waste the money on plants I'll probably kill.
Man, here it's clean up time and you're still planting. Must be nice living in zone 9. I did sow some Phacelia seeds into the ground in late August hoping that warm weather would hang around a bit so we would see some blooms and it did and the plants did bloom. I was tempted to buy some perennial seeds to start now but chickened out and will buy them in spring instead. Hope all your seeds germinate.
Believe me, I grew up in zone 6, so I appreciate what I have here. It's why I moved! But there are drawbacks that are not always easy to see from afar (because it's snowing too hard!), which I will address the next time I get it together to post something.
The short version is that native seeds germinate -- and plants start doing something -- now, because there hasn't been any water since April.
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