Lewisia

One of the challenges for a blip journal such as this, where the majority of the pictures are taken in the garden at home, is to find something that did not feature last year, last month, last week ... yesterday!  The array of pots of seedlings in the greenhouse will hopefully yield a few newbies and today's offering is a seedling from 2016, now thriving is a trough under the eaves of the bungalow.  Lewisia tweedyi, (now reclassified as Lewisiopsis tweedyi,) is endemic to western North America . It commonly grows on well-drained slopes often on rocky slopes or in rock crevices and is very drought tolerant.  Along with other Lewisias it dislikes wet around the neck of the plant which causes rot.  Here it has rocks and smaller stones around it and under the foliage.  Lewisias are sometimes planted into in walls, on the vertical, where water cannot accumulate.


A very productive day.  Lots of jobs done inside and especially out.  Rain forecast for the next few days so I'm happy to have made the most of it :-)