Plant progress

The quantity of flax seed has certainly multiplied (click to see full image), although not by as much as I'd hoped; maybe one tablespoon as opposed to two. Enough this year to eat as well as resow, anyway.

Finished the flax harvest... bar a few more heads that have showed up in the trough, presumably from the Flowers for Birds seed even though that was supposed to be red-flowered flax -- there is also what appears to be a very scrawny rudbeckia in there, though I didn't get any seed off my rudbeckias last year. The overwintered rudbeckias are still flowering after a month, presumably because they *don't* set seed very readily, and the ones that I sowed this year from the old seed packet are starting to form visible buds, as are the blue Swan River daisies. The replacement pink Swan River daisies are doing quite nicely and have now been thinned down ruthlessly to only three young plants; of course they are a very long way short of flowering, having lost many weeks of growth. I have also been doing my best to thin out the long-headed orange poppies.

I emptied out some pots in order to repot the Swan River daisies, which were getting top-heavy... along with their constellation of mesembryanthemums. It does amuse me that this year I have them growing as weeds :-D In the bottom I found two more narcissus bulbs, both of which are pretty small -- I think they may have shrunk rather than putting on growth. Not surprising they didn't flower, really! However, there weren't any rotted ones in this pot. There is still one pot with visible bulb foliage in it which I haven't touched.