Coreopsis zagreb
Join Green Thumb SundaysHAPPY EASTER
Hiding Easter Eggs in the yard this year is going to be simple. Just boil and toss! No messy dyes this year. The snow refuses to melt and in fact has turned into a hard icy layer after a few ‘warm’ days. The returning cold allows the deer to walk on it without breaking through. So there’s nowhere to hide the eggs except on the surface of the white “permafrosting’. Any color at all and you’d be able to see them from space. This year snow blindness will hide the eggs better than any nook or cranny in the yard.
So no Spring Photos today. They would just be another series of winter whie.
Coreopsis zagreb
So without a chance to take anything that resembles a Spring scene I’ve had to go back to the archives and pull out another old photo.
This tickseed is a kissing cousin of the more familiar ‘Moonbeam’. It has the same needle like leaves and the flowers are about the same size but just a shade deeper yellow. The big difference is it’s a much more vigorous grower. The foliage is thicker and the blooms are more numerous. It spreads faster and the rhizomes grow thick enough to form a mat that will pull out of the ground easily when dividing and transplanting. zagreb grows between a one foot to two high and forms rounded mounds. In bloom the mound will be covered in flowers. This is a great plant in sandy well drained soils out in full sun. It is a aggressive spreader in moist soil.
I hope your Easter is as cheerful as this plant
A small vine in the Pea family with velvety, fragrant flowers. Leaves are smooth with 5 to 7 sharp pointed leaflets. Walnut size tubers form on the root system which are edible. The vine grow 3 to 5 feet and is a bit sparse making it hard to spot when not in bloom. In this case I got lucky and found it growing out of a rock embankment along the Grasse River. Not only was it easy to see the boulders made a good backdrop for the photos.
