Yesterday

Sowed a few seeds

Outside:
Baby’s breath Gypsophila paniculata
Papaver spicatum
Japanese poppy
Common vervain (verbena officinalis)
Blue vervain (verbena hastata)
Papaver amurense
Atlas poppy (Papaver atlanticum)
Papaver lateritium
Eastern purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Great globe thistle (Echinops sphaerocephalus)
Fuller’s teasel (dipsacus fullonum)
Ice poppy (papaver croceum)
Rooted Poppy (Papaver radicatum)
Spanish Poppy (Papaver rupifragum)
Alpine Poppy (Papaver alpinum)

Indoors:
Verbena Canadensis (which grow over night! I saw a little green guy making he’s way up when I inspected them today)

More sowing

Last year my Tall Verbena did not grow all that well. No flowers and the ones that I tried to store I think are dead. Have a few outside under a whole bunch of leaves and some in the flowerbeds but who knows if they will live or not. So I got more seeds this year and I’ll try three different methods. Keep your fingers crossed. Love the plant (at least in pictures)

(Picture found here)

What else did I sow? Blue Vervain, Common Vervain, False Dragonhead and Sweet Pea.

Grow little Sweet Pea, grow...

(Picture found here)

Check the dahlias in storage

Most of them (knock on wood) looked just fine but one thing is sure, the bigger they are the easier they are to store. Some of the smallest one, the ones I sewed last season, I doubt they will make it through the winter. This was the first time I check on them.

Arabian Night: 4 (all very nice)
Fantasia: 1 (very questionable due to size)
Unknown: 7 (five questionable)
Children of Oxford: (1 fine, 1 okay, 5 small and will most likely not make it)
Tomas A Edison: 2 (both looking nice)
Le Baron: 1(Nice)
My Love: 1 (ok) (There might be two, I put the one I think is a “My Love” in the same box and it looked nice too)
Lucky number seven: 1 (Nice)

I’m also trying to storage a small pot with tall verbena, looking questionable, gave them a little spray of water…