a couple weeks ago i took the chance and dared to transplant this Storks Bill. It had found it's place in the Wall Garden bed at some point last summer or fall or even early winter? I found it down where last garden's bell peppers had been. About a foot wide already. flourishing. They become large, as in wide and tall plants. The wall garden is for food. for the domestic. Storks Bill is wild. I was afraid it would not tolerate being transplanted. At that time, it was, as far as i could see, the only of it's kind. But i did it. It didn't miss a beat. Continued blooming, continued producing the seed pods in it's new place in the Dye Plant Garden at B.
i wrote last year about how Alyssia and i were startled by MANY of these standing upright, turning, turning, their spiraling corkscrew turning in to the soil…how at first we thought they were some kind of strange insects as we watched them spin, we saw that they were seeds, we saw more being released from the pods. Really, nothing less than a Magic Show. They are as slender as a sewing needle, the curve at the top, a very fine sewing needle.
as the days have gone on, i find more and more plants. MANY MANY have found their place. I am so careFULL walking. They're everywhere. And remember, i read that they give Green color as a dye plant?
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