I have had Camassia in the garden since 2021, so not too many years. I moved it in the garden bed this Spring and it still bloomed. I was not sure what it was until it bloomed and realized I had notes for it from previous years.
Read website page and see photos.
I learned so much about them this year! I love them so much I am going to be splitting them to spread them to other areas of the garden.
Watch the YouTube video as it has the same information on the website but for those visual people. You still have to visit the website to see the photos. It has so many cool names!
Since I have some Native American genes, I was quite interested in how these were named after a Native American word, as well as how the Indians and the colonial people at them similarly to onions. Even Lewis & Clark at them! Oh the history! It makes me want to keep them in the garden.
Happiness is setting up the garden different each year. I now have a plant stand next to my hammock to be used as a drink and book stand while I relax under the tree.
We got a lot done yesterday in the garden. My walkway has been restored and now I do not have to step over a pipe or other things. Some of the beds have been reconstructed. Nots of plants have been moved around. It seems a little bare, even though there is a lot blooming right now. There is a lot of purple in the garden! My plan is purple, pinks, and yellows, but no reds in the garden. I have so much open canvas to play with creativity! Love it!
Now that hubby does not need me to do the work for the next section(s) of drainage pipes, my time is free-er to work in the beds. The maple tree helicopers are everywhere! They are a month early and it is really pushing me to work earlier. I will hand pick them all out of the beds, as well as do another weeding. The ones in the grass get mulch mowed. We have some grass seed to plant where we moved the garden beds out of. The best part is I get to start setting it up in little ways to make it a lovely happy place to me. It is the little things of a women’s touch that I love doing in the garden, just like setting up a lovely white plant stand with swirls on the edges next to the hammock!
SO many flowers to get to recording and so much more to do.
I think the Star of Bethlehem is the next video I will do. Love that little white flower.
See you next time!
Cheryl
Are you going to try eating the Camassia?