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(19,818 posts)until May.......
alfredo
(60,075 posts)niyad
(113,532 posts)2naSalit
(86,771 posts)We're several weeks behind you, but most of our bulbs are up and we could have daffodils just in time for more wintry weather in a week.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)2naSalit
(86,771 posts)They are buried in a mound of dirt. I have them in a raised bed but we have such hellatious wind here that it buried the chives. They're still alive. I don't want to uncover them until the frost season is over.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)the pot with the chives. Somehow a seed fell in and sprouted.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)the pot with the chives. Somehow a seed fell in and sprouted.
Botany
(70,567 posts)BTW There is a spring beauty mining bee. It is only around for 4 to 6 weeks and needs the forest
wildflower, "spring beauty" to complete its life cycle.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)I couldn't get a good image this year.
"Sometimes the magic works, sometime it doesn't." From "Little Big Man."
czarjak
(11,289 posts)George McGovern
(5,420 posts)George McGovern
(5,420 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,683 posts)I think my favorite is the second one, where the blooming tree stands before the evergreen trees; they frame it perfectly.
Thank you!
alfredo
(60,075 posts)babylonsister
(171,079 posts)StClone
(11,686 posts)Fortune smiles on me as I have two species of Spring Beauty in my area. As noted in a reply above, Miner Bees require the Spring Beauty to complete their life cycle and are so-named for nesting in ground tunnels. The Spring Beauty belongs to the "Miner's Lettuce" Family as a close relative of our Spring Beauty was eaten by California miners to ward off scurvy.
The Spring Beauty's early arrival means a short life for the flower once the trees shade them out. Such plants are known as "ephemeral." Ephemeral is of Greek derivation meaning "lasting a short time, a day." I like this word.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)The cemetery is about 10 miles across town, a pain some days.
MLAA
(17,318 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)MLAA
(17,318 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)Falling on the ground was the issue. First the ground was hard packed, second was the volcanic ash that will cut you to shreds.