Fourth and final installment, from commentors MaryG and Higgs Bosun’s Mate:
The sweet pea seeds that HBM planted last fall that I was complaining about not coming up in one of the previous garden chats (October?) did eventually sprout and have just started blooming.
One, a species variety named “Electric Blue” you can only get seeds from at Renee’s Gardens, was intriguing. Its leaves were very narrow and needle-like and it prospered much better than the regular container sweet peas in its pot because it handled the lack of water so much better than its fat-leaved companion. I could hardly wait until it started blooming; here is one of its flowers:
They are very tiny and don’t make much of a visual impact from any distance away, but up close they are striking – blue on the face and purplish-pink on the back of the flower. It looks like there will be a lot more blossoms when the full flowering is in progress. I can hardly wait to see them.
Lastly for flowers, the first one came open in the first raised bed from seeds I planted on January 27th of this year – a little seashell cosmos. Lots more have buds, but this is the very first one.
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