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igenlodeThe descendants of the pink Swan River daisies are now in flower, and every single plant is most definitely pink! Which is not at all what I was expecting -- given that the leaves are slightly different as well (no dark rim around the edge), I wonder if this is in fact a completely distinct variety which happened to blow in separately, or even, given the vast number of daisy-like flowers, a different species?
Apparently they do come pink, so presumably someone locally is growing a bed of pink Swan River daisies. To be honest, I prefer the blue-purple ones, so shan't bother keeping any more seed from these ;-p
The nasturtiums that I planted in the trough have finally put out a few flowers, a long way behind the others; it's clearly true, as the seed packet says, that if fed or given access to fertilised soil they will put all their energies into growing large instead of flowering! They are of course yet another orange flower, but at least some of them seem to have come out deep red or paler yellow in contrast to the calendulas and marigolds.
The Demon Red chillies are not only flowering profusely now, so far as I can tell every single one of those little flowers is setting -- and after a week the first fruits are now 3/4" long. So it's just a race against time to see if they can develop fast enough before the autumn comes.
Apparently they do come pink, so presumably someone locally is growing a bed of pink Swan River daisies. To be honest, I prefer the blue-purple ones, so shan't bother keeping any more seed from these ;-p
The nasturtiums that I planted in the trough have finally put out a few flowers, a long way behind the others; it's clearly true, as the seed packet says, that if fed or given access to fertilised soil they will put all their energies into growing large instead of flowering! They are of course yet another orange flower, but at least some of them seem to have come out deep red or paler yellow in contrast to the calendulas and marigolds.
The Demon Red chillies are not only flowering profusely now, so far as I can tell every single one of those little flowers is setting -- and after a week the first fruits are now 3/4" long. So it's just a race against time to see if they can develop fast enough before the autumn comes.