garden withoutdoors | There is nothing half so much worth doing as messing about with bulbs. Indoors

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I hope I can share a little of what I've learned - and there is so much more to learn. Let's learn to love dandelions! and all those wildflowers that are so helpful for bees.If you want to share anything, please post at https://www.facebook.com/gardenwithoutdoors/.Victor using a flowerpot for a pillow  I am loving my sheepsbit. I attempted to grow from seed last year but all the seedlings seem to die. One appeared in the centaurea dealbata pot although I didn't know what it was. I don't know how it got there but I feel very lucky. the entire plant, sharing the Centaurea dealbata's potthe pot behind (above) is a Green Wizard echinacea which was badly slug-eaten - had no leaves but since I've been picking off slugs and snails each evening, a few leaves have grownMy first two red poppies. A bee was on one yesterday but didn't get my camera in time.a bee on a green alkanet, my bees are loving itmy bees are also loving the nepeta I am lucky to have occasional access to the closed, walled Jewish cemetery in Brady Street, Whitechapel, East London. Sometimes it's severely mown, sometimes it's full of wildflowers. Last weekend it was full of wildflowers.forget-me-not close-up of the flowerforget-me-not entire plantthe purple flowers are geranium mollecomfreysmooth sow thistle with a very thick stembellis perenniswhite deadnettle and hawkweed which has spread extensivelysmooth sow thistlecow parsley, green alkanet and bellis perennis throughout the cemeteryI am so happy to see the pink-sorrel has grown back after being mown downthe buds are like little sticksone bud just starting to open, the plants form a dome as all the unbranched stems grow directly from the groundgreen alkanetprickly sow thistlebuttercupshawkweedbuttercupspear thistleplantain young plants before flowers surrounded by bellis perennisgeranium mollea shrub has completely enveloped this gravestonesmall nettle grows extensively in the cemetery, it's had years to spread, there's a carpet of it along the pathcloser view of the small nettleplants growing along the top of the wall, cow parsley in front of the wallon three sides there are modern housing estates on the other side of the wall and a school on the 4th side; sadly I spend a good deal of time on every visit picking up rubbishhawkweed growing along the top of the wall Lots of things in bud if not in bloom yet: small scabious, poppy, sea holly, sunflowers and green alkanet and forget-me-not throughout.monarda and cornflowersI have lots of wildflowers in my garden anyway but this little patch has become the wildflower area: stinging nettle, swinecress, betony, jacob's ladder, fox-and-cubs, hogweed and green alkanet throughout. betony, a couple small plants I got from the garden centre in the "wildflower" rangestinging nettle, teasel right in front of Rockystinging nettle, swinecress, hogweedon the left, jacob's ladder from the garden centre "wildflower" range, hogweed and fox-and-cubs in the pot on the right, green alkanetranunculus, globe thistle behindranunculus bud eaten out by a caterpillar February 20th I noticed this new waste ground which looks recently filled with soil by workmen. I noticed there's just the start of some plants. I was curious which plants appear first so took a closer look.these small rosettes are different, one swinecress, the other mayweed, scented / unscented / pineapple weed?21-3-202131-3-202118-4-2021a few weeks later, despite no rain, a number of further plants have grownthe feathery mayweed-type plant turned out to be pineapple weedsome sort of polygonum?, persicaria? has sproutedI think this is a poppy25-4-20213-5-2021lesser swinecressafter observing the swinecress for a couple months, I was able to observe the resulting fruits which are lesser swinecresspolygonums, awaiting more details to identify definitivelychickweedspeedwellsticky mouseear9-5-2021I have a bad feeling my fun in observing wild plants growing is coming to an end. A bag of grass seed has been put there, presumably to sow it imminently.20-5-2021the area is now full of plants and very greenmore poppies have appeared, I think they're poppiesthe pineapple weed has grown extremely wellsmooth sow thistle appeared (on the left) and just one small stinging nettle (on the right)poppies growing wella vetch has appearedclose-up of the vetchmore polygonums have appeared and someone has thrown down some grass seedit's taken a while for a thistle to appear, also oxalis has appearedthis has appeared but not certain what it is, also unknown small seedling above and to the right24-5-2021 fat hen or orache has appeared, (I have difficulty telling them apart) a Chenopodium anyway, surprised it's taken so longa few plantain-like plants have appeared but not sure about all of them yetabove and below certainly look like plantainnow that I look at this one again I'm not at all surealthough all the feathery plants appeared to all be pineapple weed, some have grown taller and have white flowers so are obviously different, a mayweed I expect, I need to go back and take photos of flowers and see if they have a scentno doubt whatsoever about popppies with buds appearingpolygonums continue to increase, not sure specific species, I await flowersthis one looks a bit different and has thinner leavesthis does not have pronounced red at the "knots"this was the original polygonum, more stinging nettle has appearedanother polygonum?smooth sow thistle has appearedand thistle (creeping thistle?) has appearedthis has appeared, uncertain to me, will observe with plantain seedlings to the rightand a common vetch has grown7-6-2021 scarlet pimpernel has appeared and the fruits of the swinecress are visible indicating lesser swinecressReviewing what has grown in this patch, I'm fascinated by what has appeared and when. I am assuming all the seeds / roots were in the soil when it was brought in. I don't see there would have been enough time for seeds to come in.February/March first 2 weeks: lesser swinecress, pineapple weed, chickweedApril, after 4 to 6 weeks: polygonums (not sure which specifically), stinging nettle, poppy, common field speedwell, sticky mouse-earMay, after 8 to 10 weeks: common vetch, dandelion, groundsel, oxalisend of May after 12 weeks: smooth sow thistle, plantain, fat hen, creeping thistle, mayweed? (some of what appeared to be pineapple weed turned out to be mayweed)June after 14 weeks: scarlet pimpernel29-5-2021 I don't know what's going on here but over half of the plants are destroyed. On purpose? Did they need to store some equipment there? Very sad. There's a patch of annual wall rocket (Diplotaxis muralis) I see locally which I struggle to photograph clearly, especially without the dog poop. There's not much green around there so this tree pit seems to be a favourite for dogs.I wish I had a clear photo of a wall rocket rosette to add to my Rosettes page. I've had to blank out the dog poop in the photo above. My auriculas are not behaving very well - they should be specimen blooms but they're sprawling with lots and lots of flowers! the lack of rain has been heart-breaking, rough hawk's-beard (Crepis vesicaria) struggling to grow in difficult conditionsthis was it back on 18-3-2021and a week or so later with visible budsclose-up of those budssome other previously dandelion-looking Crepis vesicariasthis photo was taken back in March and I thought it looked rather dandelion-like but was advised it was indeed Crepis vesicaria, as shown above, it is indeed Crepis vesicaria she likes to poop in my potsI do have a lot of pots in the garden. The sunniest side of the garden is the patio so to grow anything there, it has to be in a potannoyingly, I cannot find one of my pots, did a fox carry it off? I went next door and looked but couldn't find it, it's like a bad dreamTulip whittallii with the muscari latifoliumI am loving the muscari latifoliumthese muscari latifolium have been great this yearmy first anemone in bloomVictor and Rocky

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