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Unboxing: Colonial Creek Farm
I love purchasing budget friendly plants from Colonial Creek Farm. They always have a great selection of herbs and pollinator plants.
| Kitten Around Catmint x1 |
| John Whittlesey Salvia x1 |
| Mirage Rose Bi-Color Salvia x1 |
| African Blue Basil x2 |
This year, I get to grow African Blue Basil! I also purchased a dwarf catmint. Can you guess which one of the plants pictured attracted the kitties?
I also picked up Rose Bicolor Salvia. I had this plant last year but lost them to the heat. I did get another specimen from Denton Plant Factory.
Unboxing: Flowers By the Sea
My FBTS order has arrived. Plants are amazingly large, healthy and well packed!
| Salvia x ‘Raspberry Truffle’ x2 | |
| Salvia microphylla ‘Variegata’ x2 | |
| Salvia BODACIOUS ‘Smokey Jazz’ x1 | |
| Salvia mexicana x hispanica ‘Byron Flint’ x1 | |
| Salvia x ‘Waverly’ x1 |
Beautiful specimens all! One of the salvias already has buds. I can’t decide which specimen is my favorite, they all look fantastic. Can’t wait to get them into the ground!
Will It Live: Fern Edition
I’ve been fretting about the ferns in the shade bed. Since nearly everything but the ferns and hostas have emerged, I’m getting a little anxious to see if they made it through the freeze.
The ferns in question are of three varieties: two specimens of Japanese painted fern, Anisocampium niponicum, and two specimens of Silver Brake ferns, Pteris argyraea (?), and a clover fern, Marsilea macropoda,
The marsilea overwintered in the garage, but perished when I moved it inside in March. But I had already anticipated getting another specimen from Painted Flower Farm.
The Silver Brake ferns were marked for zone 9 hardiness according to the Lowes plant tag, so they could have been misidentified/mislabeled. Instead of Pteris quadriaurita argyraea, these may actually be Pteris cretica, at least based on the image lookups I’ve performed. Regardless, I didn’t expect them to resurrect. But I potted up the rootballs anyway to make room for an assortment of new plants.
The Japanese painted ferns were giving me the itch to go buy new ones. But I waited them out.
