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Canned flowers |
April 01, 2025. Last Christmas, my daughter's girlfriend, knowing about my gardening hobby, gave me a can of wildflower seed mix as a thoughtful present. She's not a gardener herself, and lives in a rather different part of the country from me, so I wasn't sure how the seeds would fare in our Houston garden; the seeds were "packed for 2022", so their viability might have declined, but I decided to give them a try nonetheless, distributing them in two swaths of our front-yard borders, which had some extra room after I enlarged them last year. Sure enough, in late winter some plantlets started popping up; by late March, they formed a dainty little carpet of low-growing wildflowers, visually dominated by the baby blue eyes (nemophila) and tidy tips (layia), both annuals that will disappear once the heat of summer arrives. So the display is ephemeral, but quite charming while it lasts – and I'm on the lookout for some different blooms to chime in between now and summer. |
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September 09, 2009
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