Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Sunflowers




These 6 sunflowers should be plenty for the entire garden. 'Autumn Beauty' is multi flowered and each plant takes up lots of space.

Basil 'Genovese'




Basil is a heat lover so it's important not to put it out too early. It's probably better to purchase small starter plants - basil takes a long time to grow from seed. There's a lot of different varieties of basil, but Alice prefers 'Genovese'.

Cutting




This is a clematis cutting from the beautiful plant near our corner store. It looks like it may have rooted. I dipped the node in rooting hormone, planted it in starting mix, and have misted the leaves several times a day. I'm hoping that this will become like the parent plant over time.