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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Two Old, One New

 This is the 'Blackberry Wine' corydalis I got from Ester years and years ago. It always looks great in this early part of the season. I might try a little bit in the rock garden, but I think that will be too much sun for it even though it is a perfect height.
purple corydalis


Here's one I may get yelled at for keeping. It's Lesser Celandine or Fig Buttercup, formerly Ranunculus ficaria, but now Ficaria verna. It can be very invasive. However, it's always just stayed neatly in this one area. It adds a nice blanket of color here in early spring. I can always start ripping if it wants to branch out, but I've had it for about 25 years. The leaves and everything disappear before mid-summer. I'm going to try again this year to put marigolds in that area later. I started a flat of seeds.
lesser celandine


Here's the newbie! Like the Lewisia I showed you yesterday, I have tried to grow this plant before with no success. Although, the other times I tried to grow it from seed. We'll see if starting with a mature plant solves the problem. It's an Icelandic poppy, and the variety is 'Spring Fever Mix.' I love how it has yellow and orange flowers on the same plant.


I edited and worked on plant records for indoor work, and did a little gardening and a lot of autumn olive removal outside. Of course, you can hardly tell I worked on the autumn olive. I have taken a "before" picture, so maybe in the fall it will look like I did something.

See Blackie Finds Pinkie

4 comments:

Ann said...

All look nice. That's interesting how there are two different colored flowers on the same plant.

Sharkbytes said...

Ann- I agree. However, I just found out that even though that is a perennial, it is short lived. So if it doesn't re-seed I won't have it more than a couple of years. :(

The Oceanside Animals said...

Lulu: "Orange flowers! Our Dada approves!"

Sharkbytes said...

Lulu- The orange is a nice contrast with so many yellow daffodils