I didn't get my planting done this year, so no seed-saving for Rick.
I did some emergency weeding after getting "that letter" from the park management, and knocked down the one thing I had been thinking of saving - a chocolate-purple Columbine (Probably
C. vulgarus, Maybe from Burpee's 'Harlequin' Mixed Colors [P] Z 4-8).
My lavatara finally started spreading. I had bought several TINY plants several years ago, but they only started spreading recently. Now I suspect that they are spreading too aggressively, so instead of collecting those seeds, I'm trying to get them all into one pile where they can compete only with each other.
That one was advertised as
Lavatera thuringiaca 'Barnsley', a "periclinal chimaera" of the cultivar 'Rosea', but it had reverted to plain pink 'Rosea' flowers before its first flowering. The plants originally came from Hirt's Nursery.
I say it is spreading aggressively because seedlings appear far from the parent plants. Birds? Several popped up in the middle of a gravel-over-hard-clay walkway. Others took over nearby raised beds.
