OK so I've spent the morning off and on Facebook (I love working at home!!), and have learned so much already about gardening!
There's a flower in Israel called the anemone coronaria (Kalanit) that is forbidden to pick because it's losing habitat due to development. Looks like it might be easy enough to plant here, though? I wonder, and perhaps will try! There are lots of anemone plant varieties--never grown them myself but why not. That'd be a really neat addition to my landscape!
And apparently if you live in Ohio you can plant things outside already. What? We've got two more months here in Idaho before it's safe to do that! We had snow this morning, and last year had snow in June. Amazing. But the really wet spring last year made for amazing columbine, and what I thought was just a big bush exploded with lilac flowers for the first time since I've lived in the house. I'd like to see that again...
Anyway, for now I've got 80 1-5" pots of flowers and veggies growing in my mudroom. I'm a little worried about the scarlet flax. Kind of spindly and seems to be not be really taking off? And I have no idea what portaluca, a re-seeding succulent annual, should be doing in it's early seedling stages, so can only assume what I'm looking at (very small seedlings that aren't growing?) is normal.
I planted everything at once on January 17 which, as I really knew at the time but couldn't help myself, is way way too early to plant squash-like plant seeds!! It's nice to see something so robust, however! Basil for indoors is taking off slowly, and just planted cilantro for indoors since it was growing randomly in my flower starts for some reason.
OK, is everyone bored to death besides me? OK, here's some gardening advice/tip to liven it up: If you can grow it (per region) you should get some chocolate flowers. They are awesome. Low water perennial that likes it HOT and DRY; small daisy flowers have strong cocoa smell up close. Put them by your pathways so you can smell them as often as you want! High Country Gardens is a great catalog/website to buy/learn from, and they have chocolate flowers. I've seen them at our local Town and Country gardens nursery once or twice as well. I wonder if they'd special order them?
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