Here and There

The Scilla season is quickly coming to an end.  I have maybe two weeks every Spring to take advantage of them, and then they are gone for another year. I love the field along the town-line, and wanted to try grow a patch at home, so back in 2014 we planted dozens of bulbs in our back lawn.....with a little help....

It's taken 7 years for them to spread and fill out.  The photos of Miho and Winston I posted yesterday were taken ten days ago in that little backyard patch. I had used one of my 'poke-in-the-ground' stands to support Miho so her feet were on the ground. 

The thing with scillas is that they keep growing and getting taller and taller until the leaves completely overtake the flowers. So the best photos are taken while the flowers first bloom and are still short. Each time I take more photos, the flowers have grown taller.

​Here's a photo from yesterday's post, taken ten days ago, and another of my Scilla patch as it looks today.....a totally overgrown mess....

Since the flowers keep on getting taller, I devised a way to deal with that before they do get too tall. I have some wooden disks with huge nails sticking through, which can be pushed into the ground to create a flat surface to stand a doll on.....

The stands add at least an inch and a half to a doll's height, so even if the flowers are taller, the doll rises nicely above the flowers to a better scale. I love the field along the town-line, and feel it provides a much nicer background than what I have in my backyard....basically some huge rocks and an ugly fence. The field along the town-line offers a much more natural setting....

So, as the flowers get taller, the wooden supports come in very handy. I took Miho and Winston there a week ago while the flowers still looked good, yet were getting a bit too tall scale-wise. Both Miho and Winston were supported on the hidden bases hidden in the flowers....