The snowy weather the last few weeks really put us behind with our work. We have seedlings everywhere that need transplanting, and trees and shrubs that need potting up, and, well, the to-do list is pretty much endless this time of year. Despite that, I found time to admire the moon setting over our mountain. It’s not quite full, but still a splendid sight.
And a minute later–
Goodbye moon–it disappears fast at this time of the morning.
Meanwhile, in the greenhouse, the seedlings and plants are waiting for our attention. We’re pretty happy with all the natives that are germinating. You’ll notice the grass growing with the paintbrush in the picture below. That isn’t a mistake, Indian paintbrush is a semi-parasite and needs a host plant to grow well. After it germinates we seed in blue grama grass over the top of the flat and they grow happily together.
Castilleja chromosa–Desert PaintbrushLupinus sericeus–Silky Lupine
Aquilegia barnebyi
Fernbush
We are especially happy to have the lupine. Native lupines are notoriously tricky to transplant, but this one is doing fine. (Crossing fingers and knocking on wood, not that I’m superstitious, but it might be too soon to brag.)We have a few of the silver lupine, too, Lupinus argenteus, that grows all around Southern Colorado.
