i wandered out to the east bed and found the reproductive frenzy rolling along as i counted eight stolons coming off of two plants...two i had pinned in the bed to stay..and two i had pinned in pots to move...three of the remaining stolond were too short to do much of anything with yet, however...
for the fourth one i dug a hole, placed a pot, and pinned the stolon to create yet another mobile plant to take to the south bed...
not only are they expending energy on new leaf growth...
and cooking up some berries...
they both have opted into the process of producing their own daughters...which is fine on a fundamental level...it does , however, complicate my space issues...there is a lot going on in the yard and there is not space for endless colonization...there is competition for space and while i am not above interfering i do really try to leaves things be once they are situated and let them do what they like...i am uncertain of where this may lead...beyond berries...
before we leave the berry patch, the other wild variety of berry out there has been producing little yellow blooms for a couple of weeks now and those have begun to metamorphose into the appropriate type of berry...they will have the birds' attention soon.
which was where i wandered over to next and, when i had a close look at the bed, i realized the plants had confounded my planned intervention ( interventions rarely work anyway...in any context )...how?
Very nice! What type of berries will they produce?
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