it's still hot here and it has not rained in a few days so i went out o the campus garden to make sure the shallow rooted plants were watered well enough...i don't usually worry too much about the more deeply rooted perennials ( asparagus, the yams, and the gamagrass ) unless it is as hot and dry as it was week before last...it rained pretty well at the end of last week and the perennials are responding...the top photo is of clump of gamgrass that is the farthest west in the garden and it has produced three seed heads ( second and third photos) its neighbor seeded earlier this season which was something of a surprise since my reading was telling me not to expect seeds until the third season...good news...more viable seed to try to establish some stands of eastern gamagrass here at home...the fourth photo is of yet another new asparagus spear emerging...that is two this month i believe...so conditions must be fairly optimal for both those perennials this year...the bottom photo is the perennial garden project at about 11:30 this morning...the jerusalem artichokes are blooming (tubers!) the chinese yam vines are doing well and should flower soon...and there are asparagus berries that are maturing and preparing to seed my beds with more plants...the garden never sleeps...changes every time i visit...still geeked.
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