Well, that didn’t take long

Two open cornflowers greeted me this morning when I came into my office. A nice surprise as they’d been just little buds when I went to bed the night before. There are lots of buds yet to come on the plant, so thank you Random Lady on a Bonfire Night Float for throwing me the [...]

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Blooming inside and out

The cornflowers are beginning to show their pretty blue petals. It won’t be long now, before I have some flowers to keep me company as I work. The yellow backdrop is not the wall of my office, but the laburnum outside my window that is having a good year. I’m surrounded by yellow. Outside there [...]

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Cornflowers done grown up, y’all

I haven’t blogged the cornflowers in quite a while and – looky here! – they’re all big and stuff. I never got round to thinning out the seedlings, so they made their own room in the can by growing out sideways before continuing their upward journey. Now that’s my kind of gardening.

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And now the vegetable patch smells less oniony

While the cornflowers are now showing signs of growing their first real leaves in their can indoors, the vegetable patch at the end of the garden outside is looking, well, pretty much like a wintry, abandoned piece of ground. When I braved the cold and went down there this afternoon, I found that the onions [...]

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Not dead yet

The cornflowers continue to grow well, apparently unaware that I may have lost my touch a little plant-wise (see: crappy sweetcorn; stupid onions; blind pot of tête à têtes; unspectacular turnips). The growing matter in the can evidently wasn’t the problem with the failed pansies, it must have been the seed. Thus making the Pansy [...]

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Faster than the speed of blog

You may recall my pathetic little pansy in a can that moped around for a while before finally carking it. Unimpressed by its ineptitude I sprinkled a few cornflower seeds into the can, covered them with the weird growing medium that’s as difficult to get off your fingers as glitter, watered them and went on [...]

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Disappointment in a can

Just over a fortnight after the only seedling in the can appeared … it keeled over and died. Well, that was fun. So much for “Pansy Watch”. I’d even made it its own category, so there’s gratitude for you. That can was meant to contain 8% seeds to 92% growing medium. The distributors of the [...]

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Inside and outside

The first pansy seedling showed itself yesterday, 9 days after I first poured water onto the madness that is my pansy in a tin. It was a cold day, much as it is today, and having photographed the seedling on the window sill I was huddled up against the radiator reading my news magazine. The [...]

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