Ink & Penstemon

Observations on plants and gardening from the Great Basin steppe in the American West.

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    On the WRGS tour, there were two interesting critter encounters. One member had a black dwarf lionhead bunny loose in his garden. It showed up a couple of years ago and hasn’t left. There’s lots of food (lots of yummy Primulas when I visited) and he has a burrow under the deck against the house which keeps him safe in the winter. The other member had these 3 large tortoises pictured above. They hibernate in this pen in his greenhouse during the winter.

    All I have is 5 fish in a Chinese water jar.

    Some awesome bonsai from the WRGS tour. Just reinforces my decision to start to train a quince this year. Wish me luck.

    Fritillaria atropurpurea on Stansbury Island.Photo credit Steve Hegji.

    Some cacti excellence on the WRGS tour. I’ve decided that I need to grow a lot of Pediocactus simpsonii from seed. That’s the flowering cactus in the first photo. Its flowers vary from white to pink mostly. I’m beginning to fall hard for Echinocereus. In short, I like cacti that are roundish. 

    Castilleja+sun=good. Photo credit Steve Hegji.

    Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris). On the WRGS garden tour, you see more than just rock garden plants.

    Viola purpurea. Or utahensis. We’re not sure. Photo credit Steve Hegji.

    Myrtensia brevistyla and Erythonium grandiflorum along the Dry Creek trailhead in Alpine, Utah. Photo credit Steve Hegji.

    Frigidly blooming Box Elder by Tony Frates on Flickr.

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    Despite a temperature of about 45 degrees F when this was taken (which was at or near the high for the day), Acer negundo marched forward.

    April 9, 2013, Salt Lake County, Utah, approx. 4,335 ft. elev.

    Lupinus breweri bryoides by Matt Lavin on Flickr.

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    Matted lupine is especially common on the somewhat more stable talus slopes in this area.

    Ranunculus andersonii. Taken this morning on Stansbury Island in the Great Salt Lake. I went out with a group from the UNPS and saw lots of goodies, but this was by far the prettiest. Good news is that I got seed of this from Alplains. Maybe someday I’ll have it in a trough.

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    Baileya multiradiata. Photo credit Steve Hegji.

    Flowers of Yucca brevifolia. Photo credit Steve Hegji. Steve says, “The bud in one of the pictures is just a little smaller than a bowling ball!”

    How’s it sowin’?

    We’ve got argula and chard in the corner on top, green onions in the middle in both pics, and a few lettuces on the bottom right.

    To learn more about soil blocks, check out these past posts on them (on soilblocks, DIY soilblocker), or follow the #seedchat hastag on Twitter tonight.

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