Away from the windowsills and on to the window boxes!

[lblanchard]

No joy on pansies yet -- the local hardware store was sold out by yesterday morning. I think I'll try a dawn raid on the Walmart / Home Depot tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I decided it was past time to do something about the Ghost of Christmas Past in my window boxes. Nature did a bit Herself -- about 80% the willow wands I stuck in the back of the boxes for the twiggy effect have rooted and are putting out tender green leaves. Yay! So I pulled out all the dead greenery and replaced it with new greenery in the form of a bunch of euonymus cuttings from Roy's Massacre of the Dying Bush out back. One of our eonymus now gets too much shade and has totally collapsed. He also pruned the other one, something it really needed. The departed euonymous has left a hole just about exactly the size of a pot of hostas that would be happier with a more permanent dwelling place.

While I was messing about out front, I made other discoveries:




I spy with my little eye...a rose campion seedling! At least I think that's what it is. There hasn't been a rose campion out front for, I think, three years, and now there are half a dozen coming up in the cracks of the concrete, plus maybe a dozen tiny things that may be rose campion, at their last known address. I watered the crack that contained one of them and tugged ever so gently. And lo! the roots were growing sideways in the shallow trough of litter between two concrete squares. I planted it in the aforementioned planter, watered it in....and if it flourishes I'll pull the rest of them. Living in the cracks cannot be good for them in the long run. I think they'll be a splendid addition to the tub of iris.

And speaking of iris, here's one in bud. pameladean, I also uploaded this to our conversation on Teh Elsenets.

This one is for idahoswede and pondhopper, who will surely snicker at me for going on as if I did something magnificent by rooting an ordinary pelargonium.



This one is from yesterday. An internet friend whose gardening advice I respect suggested that I remove these early blooms from my rooted pelargonium cuttings. Makes sense.



And now the North Forty (aka the back yard) is calling me.

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I'm not snickering but just chuckling a bit. I was just outside today perusing this year's crop of rooted pelar cuttings and it's a good thing I have a lot of empty pots to use because I have outdone myself this year propagating my babies.

Does Rose Campion have such fuzzy leaves? Or is that the Lamb's Ear variety?

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Rose campion's leaves are quite gray fuzzy. It's a biennial so these seedlings will not bloom this year. That's okay -- their Year 1 rosettes are charming in their own way.