cohan
@plants #SixOnSaturday from the #garden . This set of #flowers / #plants shows some of the #sweet #funny #circuitous ways #PlantCollectors operate: here's the funny one: top left native Allium cernuum (I also have pink) grown from seed of plants grown in France, from seed collected at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta..lol #florespondence #BloomScrolling #Alberta #Canada #July #NaturalGardening #GrowFromSeed #GardenFriends
Jul 23, 2023 at 5:06amWeb
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pics continued: top right- wild native Epilobium angustifolium /Fireweed (genus name changed according to some, I forget the new one without looking it up..lol) This is a wild plant, self-sown or moved in with some soil I might have amended a planting with, from farther back on the acreage! It's in an area with some plantings, so we'll call it #MarginalGardening
Centre left: a rose, probably in the Canadian Explorer series, planted by my Mom or Aunt.. not really my thing, but it *is* #pink 🙂
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pics in collage above, cont:
centre right: Jovibarba allioni -with location data (which I'd have to look up in my files!) from a wild collection in France! in my garden since 2009. Flowering extra this year, like other Sempervivum (the two genera have been separated, rejoined, etc etc).
Bottom left: Sidalcea candida / Prairie Mallow a plant of the American West, bought from an Eastern Canadian nursery, to grow in Western Canada..lol
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pics final-
Bottom right: Another from my Mom's plantings, short-lived perennial Malva, survives in the soil as seeds and can pop up years later, as it did when I re-dug areas where Mom had it (or adjacent). These ones are in front of the house, at the back of a rock garden-- too large for the spot, but who am I to resist those bright flowers like little Hibiscus?