Exciting news at the tiny tiny dune wildflower gardenette that is both the smallest and yet the most high-profile landscape on my route.
Last night’s transplant of several blanket-flower babies (Gaillardia pulchella) that sprouted up from cracks in the sidewalk in front of my house has been successful! There’s a certain watering technique for nurturing these gorgeous hardy wildflowers through the transplant stage (thanks Amy for teaching me!) and it has been helped by some additional rain!
One of the blanket-flower plants was in bloom when I carefully eased it up from the sidewalk crack and brought it to this micro-site down the block, and When I stopped by this morning for follow up, I see the beauty has remained in bloom this morning!
The other, smaller babies look healthy too and will probably be producing buds and blooms in a matter of weeks.
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PS. Social media technique note: The final image is a montage that I made by screenshotting these shots in my iPhone app. There was one image I didn’t want to include in there so I put the green heart over it. See the post with photos on my deep green Facebook page here.