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After about a month of not much blooming, it's an early spring this year.
I love February. All the bulbs are poking up, the flowering quinces are budding out in bright pink, and the blooming heather smells heavenly. I never knew heather could smell so strongly until today; someone down the street has a heavily scented white variety that intoxicated and mystified me on my way to the library. (February also holds much conifer sex, but modern medicine is good to me on that count.) I'm ready to plant the snow peas, but in the patch there are a bunch of volunteer oregano and lemon balm plants that could go to good homes locally* before I plant, but not after. Anyone want some? Self-layered rosemary cuttings are also available, and I already owe one to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coyotegirl.
* The Portland area counts as local, with payoff delayed until someone drives the distance.
In other news, stick insects are even cooler than the Bug Zoo guy said. I couldn't remember which insects he told us baited ants into harboring their eggs, but I found it pretty quickly by borrowing "elaiosome", the word for the body on the outside of a plant seed that's pulling this maneuver. Trilliums do it, among bunches of others.
I love February. All the bulbs are poking up, the flowering quinces are budding out in bright pink, and the blooming heather smells heavenly. I never knew heather could smell so strongly until today; someone down the street has a heavily scented white variety that intoxicated and mystified me on my way to the library. (February also holds much conifer sex, but modern medicine is good to me on that count.) I'm ready to plant the snow peas, but in the patch there are a bunch of volunteer oregano and lemon balm plants that could go to good homes locally* before I plant, but not after. Anyone want some? Self-layered rosemary cuttings are also available, and I already owe one to
coyotegirl. * The Portland area counts as local, with payoff delayed until someone drives the distance.
In other news, stick insects are even cooler than the Bug Zoo guy said. I couldn't remember which insects he told us baited ants into harboring their eggs, but I found it pretty quickly by borrowing "elaiosome", the word for the body on the outside of a plant seed that's pulling this maneuver. Trilliums do it, among bunches of others.
