Plants and TV

I think my dill and my chilli seeds possibly actually are germinating now, which proves that all the other things that germinated before them simply are weeds in the same pot (poppies and corn-marigolds mostly), deploying the age-old weed strategy of 'germinate first and grow fastest' ;-)
(There's a reason why 'grow like a weed' is proverbial...)

To my surprise I also have a shoot splitting the dead topknot on one of the narcissus bulbs, in addition to the existing side-shoots that all the others have been doing. But I'm increasingly worried that my bonsai birch may have failed to survive the frosts earlier this year, as the nice plump dormant buds that developed after its pruning are now looking increasingly brown and withered rather than promising to unfurl; it is still rather early for silver birch, but some of the smaller branches are starting to look dead under the bark as well. We shall see.

( Marie Antoinette )

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