Being Thoroughly Modern Like Millie

Stepping out into the home garden with my egg timer (giving my shoulder 30 minute work outs) I glance down on the mud-room floor and see a plant label. Curious, I see it is for Hemerocallis: Red Razzmatazz. My mind remembers last fall and I head out and there in the bunch of weeds are the four varieties of day lilies. But first to mulch the pansies in the front yard. Given the option of open space for a month or pansies, my wife chose pansies.

Gardening at the school is time specific. I've got lots of onions to get into the ground, and now my potatoes are here, and what about that box of raspberries, and hey we have those pac choi seedlings. The beautiful weekend did nothing for them. Rain yesterday kept us in and made it too wet today to do much outside. We did divide up a blanket flower, so now two more areas of our flower garden will be blessed with them. I love flower buds and here is a photo I took last year...

I failed to mention in my last post that last week we had divided our yarrow and that we had carted up our water gallons filled with our winter sowing projects. Plenty of tiny seedlings, and these which were ready to be put into 6 packs...

This would be Godetia seedlings: Thoroughly Modern Millie. So there I was on break last December checking out flowers, which students had circled in seed catalogs. And yes, my wife and I had just watched the movie, so what could I do but add it to the list. The ones planted indoors sputtered which made looking down into this container even more joyful. We ended up with 18 plants which made the rain yesterday quite tolerable.