In the Pink

The first of the pink Swan River daisies has finally made it into flower; it took about three and a half months! Plenty more flower buds to come, and at least having this 'late second sowing' has prolonged the flowering season considerably -- the self-sown blue ones have been flowering vigorously and are now starting to go over, and the original sowing has now set seed (or attempted to, with dubious success), died and been mostly cut down. The Cumbrian poppy appears to be dying back without ever having put on any vigorous growth, but that may just be the end of the season.

( Woody plants )

I have acquired a pot of seedling chives, since my two attempts at germinating chives this year both failed (I should dispose of that seed). I still have two stumps of towel-tomatoes (I overlooked one!), which are both currently in flower, although not so far as I can tell setting fruit. I also have some very thriving mesembryanthemums which germinated underneath the tomatoes and clearly love it in the pots which have received liquid feed -- one pot of white and one of pink with yellow centres. I still haven't had any yellow mesembryanthemums at all this year.

( Chillies )

The pak choi are still being eaten bare by an apparently endless supply of caterpillars, to the degree that out of eight or so plants there really is almost nothing worth picking. So we shall never learn how these weird crossbreed/reverted cabbages would have looked in maturity.