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I harvested some seed today - plenty from the blue Swan River daisies, which have now ripened and gone nicely fluffy, and a grand total of *two* seeds from the tiny self-sown pink Swan River daisy in the trough, which may or may not be viable! Also alyssum, which may or may not have had seed remaining on it (or it may have all fallen off already) and the 'pink Linaria', which has been very successful and colourful this year, but has tiny seedpods, assuming that they actually set at all. There does seem to be a scattering of seed in the bottom of the envelope from the flowers I picked earlier in the year, so I hope we'll get something. The trouble is that all these three varieties from the wildflower trough look remarkably similar until they actually put out flowers, so it's hard to tell what has germinated... or to identify which one you are harvesting seed from once the flowers have died.

The spring onions all appear to have died, possibly thanks to the blackfly. People claim that pests only move in when the plants are under stress anyway, but they looked absolutely fine before the blackfly started :-(

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The mystery bulbs haven't done anything, at least not yet, although the grape hyacinths are sprouting like mad, and the garlic bulb that I harvested but never ate (since it was rather small and I had a big one in the kitchen) is now busy sprouting and probably ought to be split and planted out to overwinter.

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