Two different amsonias
Two different amsonias. One of them is probably the native, Eastern Bluestar, and the other is a nativar or cultivar? But I’m not sure.
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Two different amsonias. One of them is probably the native, Eastern Bluestar, and the other is a nativar or cultivar? But I’m not sure.
Too much ambient light for us to see aurora, and too tired to drive anywhere for it, alas. I will just have to be envious.
Last-minute Mother’s Day shopping at Serendib House @ Sprout in Berwyn. I’ll be here until 8 today (Saturday), if you’d like a little help finding the perfect little gift for you, your mother, your mother-in-law….
Kevin’s first egg hopper. He can make all our hoppers from now on — this was perfect.
Parkway in May, somewhat overgrown. 🙂 More weeding soon. Front to back right now, what’s blooming? May Night salvia, amsonia just starting (will have very cool steely-blue tiny flowers, native), alliums, planter with pansies and a hellebore that I need to transplant into the soil, rose leafing out nicely, irises just starting to bloom, baptisia / wild indigo (native, or possibly native cultivar, can’t remember) behind the peacock bench.
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.
Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.maryannemohanraj.com