After a week of constant potting I'm ready for some change. I hope the plants are too. Today they are going to find their happy place! I made two trips moving the drought tolerant plants to the new location this past week. Thank goodness too. I was getting really cramped around here. Today will be split moving some one gallons into shade, consolidating flats of four inch & moving those flats off the lawn and onto the concrete where the one gallons were. The rest of the day & possibly into the night will be spend seeding flats. I will mostly be doing Swiss Chard, Brussel sprouts, Cilantro, Parsley, Dill, Calendula and I just might do an experiment with getting California poppies, Rose campion, Foxglove and Columbine to germinate in the heat.
Your picture for this post is of my newest mother plant. It is a type of Rain Lily called a Copper Lily (Habranthus tubispathus). I visited the city of Mansfield, La. a few weeks ago and these boogers were blooming like mad all over the place. I found a large patch on the side of a vacant Sonic restaurant where I gathered six bulbs. Hopefully they send off pups quickly or I won't have any to sell for years to come. I was also hoping I wouldn't be able to find it's scientific name because dubbing a plant 'Sonic Rain Lily' really appealed to me.
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