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igenlodeI finally got round to disentangling the nasturtiums from the two-and-a-half-foot-tall flax that had self-sown itself in their (tiny) pot, and discovered that I actually now have four (or was it five?) nasturtiums in there -- they have apparently been loving the hot weather and displaying belated germination! Although one of them was so tiny and very recently germinated that I'm not sure it will survive the transplant process; I had no idea it was in there...
I also split up the other pot of marigolds, which turned out to have five plants in it where I thought I had three (plus, again, an extrenely small and presumably recently-germinated extra seedling) -- unsurprisingly these plants are all incredibly compressed in shape, like Lombardy poplars! Presumably they will spread out to a more normal configuration now that they have more room.
Moved the largest of the towel-tomatoes to what will presumably be its final pot, and potted on both of the survivors of the second batch from the yogurt pots which they had outgrown and into medium-size pots, which is tantamount to a decision that I am going to keep all seven of them :-)
The Gypsophila elegans has just opened its first spray of little white flowers, which strongly suggests that the white flowers in the 'purple mix' are *also* Gypsophila elegans, as they look remarkably similar :-) I hardened my heart and decided to pull out the alyssum from that pot, because it does tend to take over if given the opportunity, and the G. elegans is a bit fragile and is failing to out-compete the Linaria elswhere. I hope I haven't done too much damage by the removal process :-(
The chive pot is now very much dominated by self-sown flax, plus a self-sown Linaria (both in flower, so I am reluctant to pull them out). And, ironically, there is *also* something that looks to me rather like a seedling yellow Cambrian poppy that has established itself in the chive tub while I wasn't looking -- after all the years and years when I tried and failed to get a single one of the hundreds and hundreds of yellow poppy seeds to germinate, or even to successfully transplant the parent plant out of the miniature rose pot! Well, we shall have to see what it turns into...
I likewise have a strong suspicion that I have what is an extremely miniature sweetbriar seedling underneath one of the elderly pot marigold plants that are now sprawling all over the place (I didn't sow any at all this year and have been pulling out the self-sown ones on auto-pilot, so these are just the overwintered plants -- I probably ought to allow some new ones to germinate). The sweetbriar hips usually just wither on the plant and eventually disappear, as there aren't enough to be worth harvesting, but presumably one of them managed to make its way into a neighbouring pot at some point!
(I seem to remember that the parent plant was originally self-sown in one of my mother's flower pots; I don't think she bought it or deliberately set out to grow a wild rose...)
I also separated the two chillies, though it turned out that they hadn't really developed enough root yet to be entangled; it will make life easier later on in any case. For the record, they are currently two inches high and nice bushy (but very small!) little plants.
Discovered today that every single one of the four chillies, dozen or so basil seedlings, and unknown number of marigolds that I had donated for sale had been eaten by slugs :-(
One likes to imagine donated plants going to good homes elsewhere, but of course the probability is that a lot of them simply die in the hands of inexpert recipients: 100% mortality is a bit depressing, though. Especially as almost all of the basil that I kept for myself also died.
I also split up the other pot of marigolds, which turned out to have five plants in it where I thought I had three (plus, again, an extrenely small and presumably recently-germinated extra seedling) -- unsurprisingly these plants are all incredibly compressed in shape, like Lombardy poplars! Presumably they will spread out to a more normal configuration now that they have more room.
Moved the largest of the towel-tomatoes to what will presumably be its final pot, and potted on both of the survivors of the second batch from the yogurt pots which they had outgrown and into medium-size pots, which is tantamount to a decision that I am going to keep all seven of them :-)
The Gypsophila elegans has just opened its first spray of little white flowers, which strongly suggests that the white flowers in the 'purple mix' are *also* Gypsophila elegans, as they look remarkably similar :-) I hardened my heart and decided to pull out the alyssum from that pot, because it does tend to take over if given the opportunity, and the G. elegans is a bit fragile and is failing to out-compete the Linaria elswhere. I hope I haven't done too much damage by the removal process :-(
The chive pot is now very much dominated by self-sown flax, plus a self-sown Linaria (both in flower, so I am reluctant to pull them out). And, ironically, there is *also* something that looks to me rather like a seedling yellow Cambrian poppy that has established itself in the chive tub while I wasn't looking -- after all the years and years when I tried and failed to get a single one of the hundreds and hundreds of yellow poppy seeds to germinate, or even to successfully transplant the parent plant out of the miniature rose pot! Well, we shall have to see what it turns into...
I likewise have a strong suspicion that I have what is an extremely miniature sweetbriar seedling underneath one of the elderly pot marigold plants that are now sprawling all over the place (I didn't sow any at all this year and have been pulling out the self-sown ones on auto-pilot, so these are just the overwintered plants -- I probably ought to allow some new ones to germinate). The sweetbriar hips usually just wither on the plant and eventually disappear, as there aren't enough to be worth harvesting, but presumably one of them managed to make its way into a neighbouring pot at some point!
(I seem to remember that the parent plant was originally self-sown in one of my mother's flower pots; I don't think she bought it or deliberately set out to grow a wild rose...)
I also separated the two chillies, though it turned out that they hadn't really developed enough root yet to be entangled; it will make life easier later on in any case. For the record, they are currently two inches high and nice bushy (but very small!) little plants.
Discovered today that every single one of the four chillies, dozen or so basil seedlings, and unknown number of marigolds that I had donated for sale had been eaten by slugs :-(
One likes to imagine donated plants going to good homes elsewhere, but of course the probability is that a lot of them simply die in the hands of inexpert recipients: 100% mortality is a bit depressing, though. Especially as almost all of the basil that I kept for myself also died.
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Date: 2026-05-31 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-31 05:25 pm (UTC)But they mainly come out orange, rather than 'mixed', which I suspect is a case of the species reverting to its natural default colour...