Until last week it was all about cuttings from Jane's New Guineas, which are doing well. We have potted up a dozen happy-looking plants, and another three are getting used to being in compost. A few more are rooting in water, and I took another half-dozen yesterday. That'll probably be the last cuttings: I've recycled two of the remaining three parent plants, but the remaining one may surprise us yet.
A few weeks back I dug out my box of seeds, some bought, some saved. Did four pans of various rudbeckias, but only one is looking promising. One other has a single seedling. But the seed is pretty old, and I'd saved it in recycled envelopes. Yesterday's weather was just about fit to go out in, so I filled a few more pans, and have started lobelia, antirrhinum (dwarf and tall) and some more rudbeckias from new packets. This year's are from Unwins: Suttons' were generally disappointing last year. That's all for the moment: the next batch goes in in April. Thunbergia, dimorphotheca, aquilegia and a lot more. We probably won't start the seed potatoes until a bit later this year - we don't want them drying out while we're in furrin parts.
The garden, meanwhile, is pretty dreich. True, we have snowdrops and crocuses, and the polyanthus and primroses are struggling personfully. But the grass remains a quagmire, as is usual this time of the year, and with all the rain we've had, the pond is close to overflowing. But Martyn reminds me that we moved in here in mid-April, after which we had warm sunny weather for a good six weeks.
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