With this spate of ridiculous weather in the middle of May I have gotten almost the last of my garden planted for the year! All that’s left is to pick up a basil sometime this week.
I have some old favourites and some total experiments going this year - clockwise from bottom left:
- “Jilly Blend” zinnias (front) and “ProCut White Lite” sunflowers (back), both from West Coast Seeds and courtesy of my MIL’s Jilly Box subscription.
- Just planted, “Celine” bush beans and “Glass Gem” corn, also WCS
- round blue pot, empty for now (basil pending)
- round purple pot, blackcurrant mint
- larger round grey pot, “Arp” rosemary and “All Season” Mexican tarragon
- smaller round grey pot, thyme and chives
- three-tiered stand in the back corner, a mix of wildflower mixes from WCS (Pacific Northwest blend, Bee blend, Hummingbird blend - whatever I had left over)
- hanging from the railing, the left and right ends both have “Laguna Dark Blue” lobelia and “Vermillionaire” cuphea. Centre left is “Superbells Lemon Slice” calibrachoa and “Supertunia Black Cherry” petunia. Centre right is “Superbells Blackcurrant Punch” calibrachoa and “Surfinia Heavenly Blue” petunia, all from Proven Winners.
- terracotta strawberry planter, “Bloody Mary” nasturtiums from WCS
- back right corner, a carnation my kid picked and a pot of self-seeded California Poppies (and also several native varieties of moss, lol)
- little purple pot, something random sprouting from the root ball of an aster that didn’t survive the winter. It’s probably a weed but I kinda wanna see what it is
- hanging on stand, strawberries
- domed standing planter, half carrots and half mesclun
All that in not a ton of square footage! Some of it is definitely experimental (corn? Full size sunflowers? FAFO I guess) but the local hummingbirds will be happy in a couple weeks anyway!