When we first started this garden, Crocus were planted in embarrassing numbers. Cages kept the deer away but this single flower is nearly all that remains now. Voles moved in and we have been unable to end them. We need to accept that this plant is here no more.
Bluets have been introduced to our gardens many times. A friend had a lawn area filled with them downhill from the septic drain field. Constant moist ground and frequent hits with the lawn mower prompted them to spread wildly. These four plants placed themselves in this gap in the stone wall and continue to hold on but just barely.
This wire cage may be responsible for their continued existence here.
This plant is either Squirrel Corn or Dutchman's Breeches. The correct identity will wait until the plants are larger and perhaps in bloom. The pulled to the surface root mass went unnoticed until the picture was seen. The deer hoof prints caught and held my attention. A wire cage can be seen nearby but protects something else. Following tomorrow's forecasted heavy rain, this will be replanted.
Kathrine Hodgekin's Dutch Iris are protected by a wire cage. We have no tenable explanation for why these remain while the nearby Crocus are almost gone.
This Hepatica plant was nearly stepped on by a deer. The invasion of wire cages is hard to look at but so is the near destruction of a treasured plant.
Our Shooting Star has a dandelion for a very close neighbor. Loosening the soil before removing the interloper will be attempted but we fully expect the deep dandelion root to break guaranteeing that plant's return.
We went nonnative for this early blooming treasure. Wind Flower is its name and very soon its bright blossoms will cover this ground. Here we use a wire cage to mark its location protecting it from both animals and the sometimes careless gardener since it will soon disappear.. We expect impressive growth following tomorrow's southern rain. Who said that nothing worthwhile ever came from Delaware?
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