Monday

Zoe's first school day today.  (Hollie's also)... 

Drove Z out to school which is near Milde.  Stopped by the botanic gardens.  Didn't get to see much because it was raining.  Not pouring, just drizzling, but enough to put a damper on enthusiasm. 

Collected Milk thistle (Silybum marianum), Salvia nemorosa, and calendula (mixed, orange yellow etc), also took a few cuttings from a really pretty RED foliage dahlia (firemountain? I think so).

Most of the herb cuttings struck.  Two types of mint from outside (large leaf spearmint and bergamot mint) are in water inside in the kitchen windowsill, but have no roots yet (still less than a week from being cut, so it's early days).  Have oregano, thyme, lemon thyme, rosemary, blackcurrants and lilac tip cuttings in the rootrainer (man I hate that thing).

Lots of streps blooming...  falling stars, blue pencil, ....can't remember... gotta take my notebook out there...

Really disappointed with the germination on those ebay streps :(  Got about 6 plants out of 2 packets and a bonus.  They're still TINY though... I've been lifting them up and putting them down every couple weeks to encourage growth, but they're still tiny.

Have a bunch of leaves down also.  haven't lost many of them to rot yet... only seeing roots on a few of them though, but I think they should do ok.

The crassula golum is SLOW.  I'd heard before how slow they were but jeez... really really REALLY slow.  It's been down for a couple months now (It had a plantlet when I put it down) and it's still just about the same size.  I have no clue how the greenhouses can make any money on them at all.. do they micropropagate them?