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The little colony of Epimedium - which I have hoped would take off, but never have....is once again flowering with their little yellow "jester hat" flowers.  They are pretty neat.  They flowered like this in 2024 (and maybe last year?).   Below are a couple photos showing this groundcover in bloom in the shade.   I was hoping they'd fill-in some of this space, but they mostly just persist, in their existing footprint.  Maybe I haven't planted them close-enough together?  Nothing a little "stream" of sedges can't fix, right? 

Both the Amber Queen and Spine Tingler Epimedium are in bloom this week.  Yellow, Jester-hat-shaped flowers on tall, needle-like stems, these are strongest blooms that we've had since this slow-growing cluster of groundcover went in the garden.  The Spine Tingler variety is just one-year-old (planted in 2023 ), so it is nice to see the blooms on those.  Below are both - first the Amber Queen, then below the Spine Tingler.