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Buds
One of the Demon Red chillies is definitely flowering now -- in fact only a couple of weeks later than last year. The others are covered in buds, and the 'catch-up chillies' are also starting to put out buds (though as far as I remember their flowers will be much bigger, and the buds are currently tiny). They all of them need to be in bigger pots :-(
I am still waiting impatiently to see what colour the descendants of the pink Swan River daisies are going to be -- the most advanced buds have opened far enough to see that the centres of the flowers are yellow, but not to show the actual petals! To my relief, after having dropped all its leaves, the miniature rose has put out some fresh sprays of foliage and even a new flower bud -- although it is now sharing the pot with two yellow poppy rosettes in addition to the remnants of the Oriental poppies, which I would have rooted out but the stems of which are helping to support the heritage tomatoes.
The latter have failed to set their last couple of trusses; the cherry tomatoes that have set are tasty, and subtly different in flavour from the towel-tomatoes (which continue extraordinarily good this year), but their yield is just too low and their height too inconvenient to be worth growing again.
The rudbeckias are also coming into bud. I planted the last of my alyssum seed, but some snail not only ate off all the tops of all the seedlings, but compounded the offence by coming back a week later to do the same thing to the late-germinating stragglers; I had assumed alyssum was indestructible after my windowsill experiences, so hadn't harvested any seed from the original pot :-( There are a few stragglers that self-seeded in amongst the phlox -- inconveniently, since I have a lot of trouble telling the foliage of the two apart -- and I might if I remember be able to get some seed off those.
The California poppies and the calendulas, having set seed, are now busy putting out an unexpected second flush of (somewhat smaller) flowers -- I have been trying to collect up all the calendula seed, but some has slipped through the net and I have an embarrassing number of calendula seedlings coming up in places where they are not wanted, and having to be destroyed!
I am still waiting impatiently to see what colour the descendants of the pink Swan River daisies are going to be -- the most advanced buds have opened far enough to see that the centres of the flowers are yellow, but not to show the actual petals! To my relief, after having dropped all its leaves, the miniature rose has put out some fresh sprays of foliage and even a new flower bud -- although it is now sharing the pot with two yellow poppy rosettes in addition to the remnants of the Oriental poppies, which I would have rooted out but the stems of which are helping to support the heritage tomatoes.
The latter have failed to set their last couple of trusses; the cherry tomatoes that have set are tasty, and subtly different in flavour from the towel-tomatoes (which continue extraordinarily good this year), but their yield is just too low and their height too inconvenient to be worth growing again.
The rudbeckias are also coming into bud. I planted the last of my alyssum seed, but some snail not only ate off all the tops of all the seedlings, but compounded the offence by coming back a week later to do the same thing to the late-germinating stragglers; I had assumed alyssum was indestructible after my windowsill experiences, so hadn't harvested any seed from the original pot :-( There are a few stragglers that self-seeded in amongst the phlox -- inconveniently, since I have a lot of trouble telling the foliage of the two apart -- and I might if I remember be able to get some seed off those.
The California poppies and the calendulas, having set seed, are now busy putting out an unexpected second flush of (somewhat smaller) flowers -- I have been trying to collect up all the calendula seed, but some has slipped through the net and I have an embarrassing number of calendula seedlings coming up in places where they are not wanted, and having to be destroyed!