I was transplanting some stuff today and had to pull up the poppies that have turned somewhat invasive. As I was hauling that bundle of plant matter away I noticed these little blue round things on the ground and my first thought was "hey, blue ceramic beads" except then I realized that those things don't just show up randomly like that. Then I bent down to look at them closer and one of them uncurled. It was almost surreal: a cobalt blue rolypoly unfurling and waving its pale violet legs in the air. I took photos because, you know, BLUE pill bugs. The ones I've seen are either black or some shade of grey. I'll upload the photos eventually but meanwhile I'm left to contemplate whether or not I've just discovered a different kind of pill bugs or if the isopod shell color is a reflection of soil mineral concentration and, if that's the case, does this mean that I have too much copper in the soil?
Now, back to your regular scheduled programming of more plant photos:
Poppies in the backyard! These are the ones that I pulled up today.
The place with the poppies, which also have invasive alyssums, sort of invasive lavender, and very invasive geranium (the one that ate my daffodils). They're there in the back, see? This is the area that I'm transplanting stuff to.
My little home-made germination kit. The number of shrink-wrap-topped containers have doubled since when I last took this photo.
Grape hyacinth that mom's afraid she'll kill and so I ended up with it.
Random Dracaena plant that parents picked up from a garage sale somewhere.
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That's a really pretty orange.
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