Ah...a sunny Saturday and no plans...where does that mean I am? Working in the yard! Glorious ... out at 10:30 am and in for a glass of wine and shower at 7 pm, does it get any better than that?Well yes...but...
So there were many wonderful discoveries and accomplishments but if I had to identify just one it would be discovering that my Eucomis oakhurst survived the winter and there are tiny little leaf tips peaking out of the gravel. I was afraid it succumbed to our extreme cold, but not so! Since a picture of what I discovered would be rather insignificant to you all (think really really small tiny leaf tips) I thought I would show you a couple pictures of what it will become.
Beautiful. I bought these plants at the Chocolate Flower Farm on Whidbey Island, in Washington State, a couple of years ago. You take a ferry over to the island and it was a VERY stormy day. It was the early days of the nursery and early in the season, so things were a little underwhelming, but the owner Marie was very helpful and went to her private stash to find me the very best. All in all a nice days outing, a road and ferry trip with a good friend and a wonderful plant purchase.
And it lives to flower again!
What a beauty, so glad it survived. Don't you just love it when you can putter around in the garden all day? Happy gardening.
ReplyDeleteI would have been excited about the picture of the leaf tips. I thought I'd lost my agave attenuata from RPR, the stem was all rotted, but yesterday I saw tiny green leaves coming up next to the stem, and it was a happy moment. Wasn't yesterday just the best for working in the yard?
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ReplyDeleteYea for your agave! That is great Megan...it's such a great feeling when you see signs of life, I'll be looking for pictures on your blog...
ReplyDeleteI love Chocolate Flower Farm! Gee, I wonder why.....? Dark, dramatic foliage specimens, perhaps & Chocolate cosmos!
ReplyDeleteCome visit me on Blotanical. Left you a message there. Alice
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Alice...I'll check out the message, thanks! Oh and your post hadn't disappeared, I just hadn't published it yet. I turned on that feature because I got spammed with a couple really annoying comments. Not garden related and not at all related to my blog! People trying to sell things....
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