Garden
It has been proper spring weather for the last few days- cool and rainy, with brief periods of bright, warm sun. It's been perfect for my little seedlings in the garden. The sunflowers are mostly recovered from the trauma of transplantation, starting to stand up and head upwards. In the datura bed, I've got a bunch of little double blade leaf sets up where seeds have sprouted, although there's no telling until they grow a lot more if these are from the new, exotic variety seeds or the standard that has been growing there for years, though I suspect the latter because the location of the emerging seedlings. I've also had the first sighting of morning glory seedlings, leading to subsequent weeding out of said seedlings. I will eradicate it from the garden yet!
It looks like very little of the rosemary made it through the winter- not a surprise, I've said fairly often that it's a three-year plant; one year stuggling, one year thriving, one year aggressive, and then dead that winter to replant. Call it a triannual? Anyway, this winter killed the majority of the rosemary, and the bit that lived is probably not quite salvageable. I've promised my dad the bushes to burn in his firepit the next time he does lamb (pity the wood is useless otherwise). I think I'll take out the catnip while I'm at it, since I never much remember to harvest it and it seems to just attract trouble. I don't know what I want to plant in its place, but since I need to go to a garden center anyway, as the foxglove had died out, and I need my yearly heliotrop, and, yes, replace the rosemary again, I'll look around and see if there's anything purple and deadly that likes full sun that might like the spot.
It looks like very little of the rosemary made it through the winter- not a surprise, I've said fairly often that it's a three-year plant; one year stuggling, one year thriving, one year aggressive, and then dead that winter to replant. Call it a triannual? Anyway, this winter killed the majority of the rosemary, and the bit that lived is probably not quite salvageable. I've promised my dad the bushes to burn in his firepit the next time he does lamb (pity the wood is useless otherwise). I think I'll take out the catnip while I'm at it, since I never much remember to harvest it and it seems to just attract trouble. I don't know what I want to plant in its place, but since I need to go to a garden center anyway, as the foxglove had died out, and I need my yearly heliotrop, and, yes, replace the rosemary again, I'll look around and see if there's anything purple and deadly that likes full sun that might like the spot.