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I thought I had identified the mystery plant that popped up in the middle of a pot of sprouting salad on my windowsill as a corn-marigold that had very belatedly germinated from the compost -- but today it opened one of its small round buds and revealed itself to be pink, which rather rules out that possibility!


It's not a pink Swan River daisy, because the leaves are all wrong. Maybe a single pink chrysanthemum? They do look remarkably like corn-marigolds.

Or maybe pink Cosmos? Either way it must have migrated in through the open window from someone else's garden, which is quite a feat...

Edit: Apparently it's a dwarf Argyranthemum frutescens, or garden marguerite:





The basil I re-sowed, very thickly, has now responded by *all* germinating, after the complete failure of my first attempt! This was the lettuce-leaf basil seed rather than the 'sweet basil', so it's possible the seed in that packet had survived better, though I think I actually acquired both varieties in the same year. (The lettuce-leaf basil was a magazine freebie that arrived very late in the season.)

The not-a-strawberry plant is growing enormous vigorous foliage and threatening to send out runners but its few greenish flowers appear to have failed to set any fruit at all but are just tiny seed-covered lumps, as opposed to my 'real' strawberries which are now flowering and starting to set (despite being pathetically small). So even if it *is* some kind of actual strawberry, it doesn't appear to be a variety worth keeping -- maybe the result of some cultivar setting seed and 'reverting to the wild', like the sour pippins that grow from apple cores in hedgerows?

I also had my first field poppy today, and my first corn-camomile flower has opened (the rose has been open for a while). The fiddlenecks turn out to be slightly scented, and I have some pink snapdragon-type flowers in the wildflower trough, which might be very weedy actual snapdragons! Or toadflax? (Either way they don't seem to have a spire of buds...)
The calendulas that germinated inside the compost bag are showing coloured buds, but haven't quite reached the stage of opening yet.

The pak choi is still flowering in a very pretty way and has some decent-sized seedpods on it. I don't really have enough room to plant another crop for eating purposes, unfortunately, now that all my other seedlings are reaching the stage of needing potting up! The honesty has finished flowering and is now covered in currently-purple sixpences :)

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