With the snow melted and mild weather in the forecast, I pulled the two little pots of Collomia grandiflora seedlings out of the cool greenhouse and transplanted them on so they can get more growth on before they go into my garden or someone else’s.
In these two little pots, there ended up being 84 Collomia grandiflora seedlings! I’m excited that I should be able to have a nice stand of them in my native garden and also give a bunch to neighbors and friends, assuming most of them make it to adulthood.
The other native plant seeds that are showing signs of life are the Camas seeds, Camassia quamash. I planted quite a few of these seeds over the past year, as well as planting hundreds of the bulbs directly into the garden. The seeds didn’t come up last spring, but some came up over the winter. I’m curious if the effort to raise these plants to adulthood will be worth it, given that bulbs are available fairly inexpensively.
