365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Snappy
Day 266: After several valiant but entirely unsuccessful attempts to grow snapdragons from seed, I finally gave up and bought starter plants from a nursery about ten years ago. Ironically, those plants not only self-sowed, but the originals over-wintered with the stems remaining green despite hard frosts. While I am grateful for their contribution to my colour garden, I do wish that the bronze one had survived. It was apparently not as hardy as these two old standards. I've let these have their will, so that now snapdragons pop up in the oddest places: back behind the tall delphiniums and peonies, under the sweetfern shrub. I love their playfulness, surprising me by leaping out of shadows where I least expected them to hide. Maybe some day, I'll bring more home from the store. I mean, you can never have too many snapdragons, right?
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