Rewilding My Lot

I first encountered Redwhisker Clammyweed (Polanisia dodecandra) while volunteering in Seguin’s Park West pollinator garden. It was a volunteer in that garden itself, but has been allowed to remain for now because it attracts the very tiniest of bees.

I believe I have at least two of these volunteers here. One has handily placed itself in a bed in the back yard that is not yet complete, so it may as well stay there for now.

The other was in the middle of my swale and in danger of being dug up for the pond project, so I figured there was nothing lost in trying to transplant it.

So the day after we had 0.3 inches of rain to moisten the soil, I transplanted the swale Clammyweed near to its companion. Here they are on either side of a Mexican Mint Marigold (Tagetes lucida) that was transplanted itself from a pot earlier this year. On the right is the Clammyweed that volunteered in that location; on the left is the one that I moved. In the back left of the photo is Frogfruit that needs to be trimmed back again (an ongoing project)!