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The daffodils in the backyard are starting to bloom already... This seems to be happening earlier each year.Last year they came up pretty early, but didn't bloom until February.
A while back (maybe two weeks) I planted some seeds in wine barrel #2 I planted Morning glory, CA poppy, and two others I can't remember now... and promptly forgot about them.Today I noticed that all five of the morning glories have popped up out of the soil... this is already better than my attempt at planting them in the spring ( I think only two or three came up out of 6 planted and then two of those were promptly eaten by grasshoppers). I saw some other seedling coming up out of the soil, but it's hard to tell if they are seeds I planted or the seedling that come up everywhere around our house from bird droppings (a shrub of some sort - i'm growing a couple of them to see what they are but it's going to take a while to find out).
One of them came up and then promptly died - the CA Bluebells
- Seeds that are coming up:
- CA Rockcress
- Weed from my backyard
- Nicotiana
- CA poppy
- Echanecia
- Sweetpea
- Lunaria
- Flat-leaved parsley
- Blue-eyed grass
- Neighbors mimosa
- Dill Penstemon
- UC Arboretum Tree
- Summer blue delphinium
- cynglossum
- freesia
- morning glory
- some others look like they are starting to poke through the soil:
- One's that haven't shown any growth yet:
Ugh! I am so heartbroken... my Plectranthus 'Mona Lavender' which was was in full bloom and looking gorgeous(even more so than in the photo below which was taken a couple weeks ago), was completely destroyed, and not just destroyed - they took it with them to hide the evidence, so I can't even try to propagate it into more plants from the broken parts...
All they left was a short little stump. Hopefully it will come back next year.
All they left was a short little stump. Hopefully it will come back next year.
Our place is being re-roofed today, and it's stressing me out. I have already spotted some destruction in the garden (my plumeria plant has been snapped in half). I don't even want to go look at anything else that might be destroyed. It's mostly annoying because I specifically asked if I should move some of the plants, and they said no they'll be fine. Clearly that's not the case.
My mom bought me a couple of the jiffy seed starting trays that she saw on sale somewhere or another, and I'm super-glad she did because the jiffy seed starter trays that I had were intended to hold the jiffy 5 peat pots, and I had two packages of jiffy 7 refills (which don't fit nicely in the 5 trays); these new trays she got however, are for the jiffy 7 peat pots...Yay! So I decided to try to start from seed some of the plants that should be started in fall in CA.
I have never had any luck with growing anything from seed. But I've learned a few tips and tricks so I keep trying...Tip #1 tamp the soil down after planting the seeds, so there is good soil/seed contact (Thank you Annie of Annies Annuals for that tip). Also, this is the part I usually screw up on, but you need to prevent the seedlings from dying of rot (damping off) where the seedling is too moist next to the soil. I have yet to figure out the secret to this. I am putting these seed trays next to a south facing widow with partially open vertical blinds.
Here's a list - Seed tray 1:
- Sweet Pea
- Echanecia
- Freesia
- Cynglossum
- CA Bluebells
- Lunaria
- A weed from my backyard
- morning glory
- CA Poppy (white)
- Seed tray 2: Mimosa from a neighbor
- CA Rockcress
- Blue-eyed grass
- Nicotiana
- Flat-leaved Parsley
- Tree from UC Davis Arboretum
- Delphinium Summer Blues
- Dill
- Penstemon Rocky Mtn.
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