Spring is here, and what a wonderful time to be alive. The woods are awake with a chorus of flowers, the sun is shining, the days are warm, the roots are ready to be dug, the spring waters are cool, the buds on the trees are swelling, and the grasslands rest in tones of brown, patiently waiting.
I have checked up on some of the places where I have sown seed, and it is a joy to see life continue to unfold year by year.
This update will be brief. The eastern yampah seed I collected last summer of 2017, having been sown outside to cold-moist stratify all winter, has germinated abundantly and healthfully.
Eastern yampah (Perideridia americana) germination, spring 2018
Yampah generally takes three or four years to mature to flowering age, so by 2020 or 2021 at the latest I hope for the first wave of flowers. More later…
Dicotelydons typical of Apiaceae family members. Perideridia americana.
Saving + sowing seeds of native, wild, perennial plants. Do-it-yourself restoration. Rewilding with plants. Finding symbiosis with the plants we love.
