More anemones

I now have four shoots on my window-sill; the packet says that there were originally five bulbs, but presumably one of them failed to survive the winter. (Weirdly, all four are in a cluster over one side of the pot -- I certainly wouldn't have planted them that way! They must have migrated through the soil by pushing their roots.)

And I bought myself a £3 packet of flower seeds as an Easter present, having finally decided to throw out the remnants of the 'wildflower seed tag' that I planted a couple of years back from my Lush bubble-bath wand. By this point it had turned into a pot of rushes and sweet alyssum, the sole vigorous survivor of the poppies and field flowers originally included. It seemed a bit cruel to put the alyssum on the compost heap when it was growing so vigorously and still flowering, but it was getting extremely straggly and messy (shedding flowers and leaves all over the place), and I was distinctly tired of it on my windowsill :-(

So now I have a fresh tray of mystery seed, of which I know nothing save that none of the flowers are supposed to grow more than 12" high and that they are expected to start flowering within six weeks and germinating within five days -- billed as a quick flush of changing colour throughout the summer as different plants come into bloom. They don't actually tell you which species are in there!

I shall have to harden my heart and try to thin it out a bit, since there will be rather more than five separate individual seeds in there this time...