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Foliage Followup March 2012

And then there’s the dodge of leaving projects directly underfoot so you’ll theoretically have no choice but to finish them. Does this trick ever work for anyone else? I just end up with a lot of stuff underfoot. Like these old iron cafe chairs I fished out of the mulch pile to be repainted for [...]

Man-Eating Corydalis

There’s a man-eater loose in the neighborhood

Image found here.

Not a tawny blur of shadowy stripes, but a flutter of ferny glaucous leaf, 4X4 feet. Big enough for a tiger cub to hide behind.

Corydalis heterocarpa, Corydalis heterocarpa var. japonica, Japan Fernleaf Corydalis.

Perhaps arrogantly, I feel I’ve tamed [...]