Why would someone not want to use this artifact in their garden? Yes it was heavy and yes it wouldn’t fit in the back of that beautiful K mart blue truck, so I had to go back and get my trailer.

Yet

Yet

I used a cement pipe as a pedestal.

Ain’t it cool daddy!

Thank you Jacques and Tony

Next what kind of rocks should I use?

Michigan may not have soaring mountain landscapes, but May in Michigan does have liverworts, ok April too.  This is Hepatica americana.  Sometimes there are spots on the leaves, they must have reminded old timers of grandma’s hands trying to make liver taste good. In Michigan you can find Hepatica acutiloba also. To my eyes the flowers look the same, but the leaves are pointed at the ends. One of the wonderful traits of Hepaticas is they bloom before the leaves.  We must not forget to look down. Hepaticas are just the thing to get you out in the woods early in spring. It’s fun for us plantjunkies to see the color variation and the sun looking for this star of the woods.

Corydalis solida is a small bulb from northern Europe. It’s readily available from most bulb suppliers like Mclure & Zimmermen and Brent and Becky’s, with names like Beth Evans & George Baker. I would caution people not to start with the Penza strain as it throws muddy colored seedlings. If you start with named forms, especially something by Janis Ruksans, you will get better colored seedlings,  available from Odyssey Bulbs

 

This is a seedling of Corydalis solida. You will get some fantastic colors if you let them go to seed. Please don’t worry that they will take over your garden; they disappear in early June not to be seen again until early next spring when all the green, red and white is a welcome sight.I like the pink seedlings, some folks don’t, it reminds me of my Grandfather, who was a character from Johnny Carson,“Ivan Terratitov The Great Russian  Lover”

 

Well if I knew how to load a picture I would do that and say something intelligent about it. So I need to figure that out.

Don