Wildflowers in the garden
My Blue Flax is in Bloom
A little bit of color in my garden
Blue Flax (Linum lewisii) is one of the Idaho native wildflowers I’ve been trying to grow from seed for a couple of years now. I did get one to take last year and it has come back this year. Unfortunately, I had planted the seedling in the wrong spot.
It usually blooms in the late spring, so having it bloom now is nice. I haven’t had much blooming in my garden this year other than the dandelions in my yard and the Grape Hyacinth in the flower boxes around the big garden.
It is a delicate-looking plant and looks very lonely by itself. As a perennial, it should spread out nicely in my bee/butterfly garden once I can get it established there, and will look nice with the other native plants around it.
I will start gathering seeds from this one so I can scatter them in the wildflower garden this fall if the ones I sowed this spring don’t come up. I’ll save some to start in my greenhouse next spring so I have seedlings to plant if the seeds don’t take and maybe plant in other areas around my place.
