Poached-egg flowers

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The poached-egg plant (Limnanthes douglasii) has opened its first bud, as promised.
And the calendula is now three times the size of the plant that was originally larger, and has multiple flowers and a possible seedhead (in April!) on it -- so much for the supposed ill-effects of clear yoghurt pots! (Yes, I did replant it a few days ago into a larger plastic flower-pot, but that was because it had clearly outgrown the original tub and was drying out rapidly in the hot sun due to its sheer mass of foliage...)