Obstinate, headstrong girl!

The Black Sea at night, 1879, Ivan Aivazovski

students and people who still have to work:

Rip Clarg, bffs forever

First up: the Welsh poppy. I have a bunch of these, in various shades of yellow and orange

Next, pansies! Adorning a multitude of pots and window boxes. Bought half-dead from the Spar the day before we all went into lockdown - they’ve revived well!

Next on the list, bluebells, out early this year. These are Spanish bluebells. I do also have a few natives tucked away in odd corners, but they aren’t out yet

Beautiful dicentra

My gorgeous coronilla citronella, currently home base to a colony of ladybirds. Flowers all winter, October till May, without fail. The bees love it

Also Mecca for bees is Erysimum Bowle’s mauve, which flowers pretty much all year round, 12 months straight. I’ve had flowers on this one for six years and counting!

Next, the humble primrose. This one needs to be divided once the flowers start to fade - I can probably get four plants off the one clump here

Here’s a cluster of forget-me-not, which tends to wander pretty much wherever it feels like, really, from year to year. It started out in a pot, then seeded itself into the patio, and from there into the path, before finally establishing a foothold in the actual flower bed at last!

Arabis

Ajuga (bugle) - this, again, tends to wander around the garden wherever it feels like. Good ground cover, popular with bees

Rosemary - it has usually gone over by now, but still going strong

An early rock rose

osteospermum, first of the season, just beginning to open

Pulmonaria, going over now but still a few flowers hanging on

Aquilegia (columbine) - these are out fairly early this year

Tiarella

My little clematis majojo is beginning to go over now, but still beautiful

Feverfew

Red valerian

Some consider it a weed, but I’m growing it as a native wildflower: Campion - really hard to photograph on a windy day!

Bacopa, old and straggly but still flowering like mad

And because I’m encouraging a wildlife lawn and practicing weed tolerance, here’s some daisy

Dandelion

And herb robert!

Not pictured, because the damn camera wouldn’t focus: arenaria, armeria, alyssum, sweet woodruff, periwinkle, helichrysum and bergenia

i’m your biggest fan

Layered sedimentary rocks, maintaining flat orientation since time of deposition approximately 250 million years ago. The pocketed feature of the honeycomb weathering (tafoni) appears to occur preferentially in sand-dominated layers over the silt-rich layers.

Bruce: oh shit

Alfred: she named it after you

[Supplies Needed on Navajo Nation.

Dear friends,

I would like to share the following message from Dr. Sara Jager (who lived in PC while completing her residency at Primary Children’s), now a doctor on the Navajo Nation:

Want to help fight COVID?

I am a doctor on the Navajo reservation in Tuba City, Arizona. We are being hit hard by COVID. We do not have enough gowns, masks, or face shields to protect all of the members of our triage, ER, and inpatient units.

Here is what we need:

1) Homemade face masks - these will be given to coughing patients to containt the spread of the virus among members in the home as well as for use in the ER or other clinic visits. We may also use them over the top of the N95 mask to protect the N95 from contamination.

2) Homemade gowns for hospital personnel. We can send them through Hospital laundering services. This will help protect healthcare workers from the virus. Long sleeve, to the knee. Easily washable, probably cotton.

3) Face shields - people have been making these as well. This protects our eyes from couhging/sputum. These will be worn by healthcare workers seeing patients.

Usually these are single-use items, but we are reusing all of them right now.

Thank you,

Sara Jagar, MD

Lieutenant Commander, USPHS

Deputy Chief Pediatrics

PO Box 2561

Tuba City, AZ 86045]