I wanted to try my hand at growing a few plants from seed so a month or two ago I picked up this little baby:

Here’s what I have planted so far:

• Silver Fern Cyathea dealbat

• Manuka Tea Tree Leptospermum scoparium (sounds like a Harry Potter spell doesn’t it?) . The seed packet says that these seeds expired in 2002 (brought from New Zealand along with the ferns by my mother several years ago), but so far I have six seedlings.

  

• Foxglove
• Hollyhock
• Lavender ‘Dwarf Munstead’
• Buttercrunch lettuce
• Tibetan Poppy ‘Blue Meconopis’

• Bellis Perennis monstrosa

and the Hawaiian seeds mentioned in my last post:

• Papaya
• Guava
• Kona Coffee

With luck, I’ll be able to share some pictures of all these plants in the coming months!

What’s blooming in your garden this week?

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