This is Weed and this is Wack with WOWDY Gardens and today we’re going to talk about spring ephemeral Now they need to be planted in the fall. Are these bulbs or these? Can they be both bulbs ands. seeds? Generally speaking we’re talking about bulbs, but you know the the term ephemeral and the term spring ephemeral means that it completes its life
cycle in the springtime early in the springtime before the tree canopy leaves out and Before you need to cut your grass, right? So in this instance, I’m mainly talking about two plants one is the crocus and as we know in Tacoma before the big monstrosity went up out the street here a Willow and Maple that field was filled with light purple crocuses and they were very
Beneficial to the insects as well because you know, they’re they’re the earliest ones that come up in the spring I suppose that’s earliest flower First flower and also So it’s good to grow this Well, it’s yes, it’s good to grow it’s good to plant them in your yard and you can plant them in your yard and though they will bloom and complete their life cycle before you need to cut your grass
for the first time wonderful and the mower blade will be cutting above the mature height of the plant so the mower does not hurt the plant at all and it’s just beautiful my neighbor has these and It looks like a little carpet of flowers Coming up Yeah, and as well before you’d have to cut the grass so the in crocuses the different colored flowers are the light purple type That’s extremely invasive. There’s a dark purple type. There’s a yellow
There is a white and I believe there’s a white with a little bit of a purple streak to it And that’s those are the main colors. I was worried you might say invasive in there Probably were just to my knowledge just the light purple type are now the other thing that I I planted quite a bit when I was landscaping is the ice folly daffodil and that’s a daffodil that blooms
in early February and so it can be planted in deciduous woods where you have basically very deciduous trees because they are they the this plant will finish its life cycle before the canopy leaves out so you can plant one in different spots and they will go ahead and multiply because daffodils is the Latin name is Narcissus and it is poisonous to the wildlife so they do not eat them hmm
So no wonder they make it The wildlife will eat tulips but not daffodils, right? So if you’d like to have a little color the it’s the color of the ice folly is white on the outside and yellow on the inside Hmm, and it’s a very easy daffodil to to have in your in your garden So I just cleared off the snow on my giant pot of grass
Arugula and it looks just like it hadn’t snowed at all. I’m extremely happy with that I’m letting mine my snow melt on my arugula bed, but the part that’s melted off already is looking I haven’t tasted it yet, but it looks good to go Radishes look good to go. I’ve been eating my radish leaves. They’re supposed to be really nutritious by the way. Yeah That’s another episode and you have anything in the hot in your hot box. No, no, not right now
Everything’s outside. I don’t have a hot box. I usually just put a plant I have wiring right so you didn’t have I was going to and I thought you know what this this is gonna be a short Cold blast. It was colder than I thought it but the snow insulated everything so everything’s cool All right, folks. So next fall go out there and plant a bunch of crocuses in your yard and if you have a thermal spring ephemeral ephemeral excuse me springy
Femurals and some crocuses in your yard and then you can enjoy them the next year and they’ll come up every year from that on and Think about some ice follies in your landscape. Absolutely Well, thanks for that. This is a species. I really don’t know much about I’ve always admired All right, folks until next time take care