Here's the Cheyenne Spirit Echinacea that I overwintered dry, in light, in garage. I moved it outside a week or two ago, cleaned it up, and started watering.
I haven't looked at the ones that I left in the ground over the winter. The plants that I left outside in a container dried out and died.
These are nice plants. I hope some of the others survived too.
Here are some daylilies that I bought at Costco last month.
Here they are before planting. I could have planted them any time during the past few weeks. They were sort of "out of sight / out of mind" in the garage. They have been growing, some upside down. I tried to unbend them a little and plant focused on having the roots pointing down.
Daylilies are resilient. I think they'll recover fine. With those root masses, they might even bloom this summer. Might.
For now, they are just North of the house. Today is chilly, rainy and overcast. Ad they grow and the chlorophyll fills in and darkens, I'll gradually move them to sunnier locations.
Think about what plants had to survive during the great era of botanical explorations, during the 1500s to 1800s. I imagine some of the survivors of those sailing ship journeys were the ones capable of enduring all sorts of difficulties. Maybe some of those passed their resilience to their descendants (as mine did, to me).
These were in the unheated, attached garage. They were in a west window, and not watered during the winter.
These include two potted, dwarf Alstroemeria, a Dorotheanthes "Mezoo", two Lycoris that I planted last fall, and a dried out burgundy leaf oxalis.
I watered them. Next they need cleaning up. They might not grow. I think they will.
I planted the first row of onion seedlings. These were the yellow long-keeping hybrid, Patterson.
I started the seeds in January. They are ready to plant. These also, are in a high raised bed. I can sit on my garden stool and plant them. The soil was prepared last fall and covered with tree leaves, so it is soft, moist, and weedless.
I covered them with fencing tunnels. Without those, Jays pull up the onion plants. Sometimes they do, anyway.
I have five more pots of onions, and two of leeks. I will see if I can plant one pot a day.
Three of the new David Austin Rose bushes look pretty good. They have plump buds with red or green growth.
I forgot to photograph Silas Marner. It's about the same.
Give Me Sunshine had the longest, palest shoots. I had hoped that shade and cool weather would protect them. Instead, they have dried out and wilted.
I'm still hopeful that new buds, not yet emerged, will grow and form the new bush. The stems themselves still look good.
