Saturday, May 13, 2023

Drainage ditch rescues

For a few days, I’d had my eye on some onion-looking plants in a nearby drainage ditch. This afternoon, I grabbed a hand shovel and small container. Then I beelined to the ditch and dug some up of the bulbs to add to our neighbor native plants. Meet meadow garlic (Allium canadense). Then James went back with me and dug up some Hill Country rain lilies (Cooperia pendunculata) in the same ditch. 


Meadow garlic in a row

Rain lily on back left suffered a broken bulb. One on far right intact. A small young bulb, front and center, also jumped into James’ shovel. 

UPDATE May 6, 2023

We dug up another plant from the ditch. I think this one is a wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum).


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