Ken, that garden and yard are gorgeous! Neat shade panel!

>> same ole Rick.

It would take longer than 1-2 weeks to unpack all the nuts out of my head! Thanks for the welcome-back, everyone. My SO and a friend went to Estes Park (Rocky Mountain National Park) for 3-4 days. Then I got an extension on my vacation and took more time up there.

Seeing the Olympic and Cascade ranges every day (from a distance), I thought I knew what "mountains" looked like. Nope.

Driving in, we followed Big Thompson River, or Big Thompson Valley. Yikes! It was like standing at the bottom of an elevator shaft and looking straight up, but the walls were like a geology class. Plus, they had had a significant flood just a few days before, and many things had been undermined. I saw two manufactured homes that looked like someone had flung a dollhouse across the room.

One house put up a big piece of plywood in their front yard, painted "THANKS, road crews!"

I used to travel by car/truck a lot.
It's so wonderful to be in a place that's so new to you!

This spring I planted some bulbils of walking onions, now they are a few inches high....what an effortless plant. Can't wait to see what the flowers look like.

My walking onions are few but they are looking good. I just need to let them do their thing.

I never have heard of walking onions before. So I had to look them up. So it is the bulbs above ground you eat?

There is an underground bulb and the stalks also form bulblets (miniature onions) that grow at the top of the stalk. Young plants may be used like scallions in the spring, and the bulblets can be used in cooking. The weight of the stalk of bulblets causes the stalk to bend over to the ground and form new plants where they touch the ground. Hence, they "walk" around.

SCButtercup said:This spring I planted some bulbils of walking onions, now they are a few inches high....what an effortless plant. Can't wait to see what the flowers look like.

They look pretty much like regular onion flowers, but the after flowering is pretty cool.
I had a 15" pot of them a couple of years. This year I'm starting over with last years bulbils (bulbils?)

Blooming chives right now, both the Italian and garlic varieties. Nice lavender blooms. We cut chives 2-3 times a week and the chives will continue producing all year long.