We seek it here...

We seek it here, we seek it there... the return of the elusive yellow poppy! (The Cumbrian variety, not the fanfic, which is not doing so well; I'm thinking about deleting another chunk of embellishment to try to get back to the original concept, but that won't leave much...)


If only I knew how to propagate it reliably, instead of getting it popping up intermittently from among the roots of the rose.

A pot of sorrel

I went to the garden centre to see if I could get sorrel seed, but they didn't have any (a lot of things were out of stock at this time of year, but there wasn't even a space where sorrel ought to be), and I found some potted sorrel plants outside at the back, so spent £5·50 on one of those. I always liked picking and eating the leaves from the garden and it will add interest to my salads, along with the kale. I just hope it doesn't prove as much of a disappointment as the oregano plant has, despite being kept in full sunshine (I keep wondering whether I ought to get rid of that, and then hoping it will have a decent enough flavour this year to make use of with the tomatoes...)

I was tempted by the red-veined sorrel, but decided that the plain green would probably be more vigorous and more likely to breed true if it self-seeded -- though sorrel is supposed to be perennial. The plants in the garden centre were many of them busy sending up flower spikes already!

My saved-seed rocket, which I have in fact been harvesting regularly, is now showing signs of trying to flower, so I should probably plant some more of that; the commercial seed is younger and hasn't got to that stage yet, but is not nearly so vigorous.

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