If you like having butterflies visit your yard, few things are more attractive to them than Lantana. If your Mom wouldn't mind, take some cuttings from her plants and literally just stick them in the ground. Water every few days if it doesn't rain. I just added pics including a Lantana cutting from last year that's growing back nicely this spring, in this discussion. Butterfly bushes (Buddleia) are just as easy to multiply, but somebody has to have one to get started. Easy to find in stores, inexpensive, or through trading. Of course BF's like butterfly bushes, HA! Basil flowers are beloved by BF's and bees. If you have a little patch of ground to scatter some basil seeds, they should have plenty of time to make flowers this year. Then, of course, the leaves are yummy. The flowers are white, so don't clash with anything, not that exciting visually, but I've seen hummingbirds visiting them also. That gets it a prized spot in my opinion. That's really cool your sprouts survived some frosts! Has anyone else noticed, the seed sprouts are all plain green, top and bottom. The plants coming back from previous years' tubers have red on the back of their leaves. I was very intrigued by the first one I saw in the back yard because I didn't recognize it at first, but could tell it was growth, not a sprout, and there were no weeds there to be growing back. Never know what could creep over from the abandoned yard next door though.

Yep, I've had the same issue as well. My four o'clock plant is yellow and rarely opens. The only times I've seen a couple opened was around 7:00 in the morning. I keep forgetting to check earlier around 6:00 to see if more are open at that time. My four o'clocks do get more shade in the morning than the evening where they're located, so perhaps that's something to do with it. I have a few more four o'clock seedlings I waited too long to plant out, so they're still small. Perhaps they'll get a chance to bloom by the end of summer. I snuck up on my four o'clock and snapped this picture one morning while I had a chance:

Now my containerized 4:00's have about bloomed out. They have set seeds, which I am saving. The plants in the ground started blooming much later. They are actually more lush than the ones in containers. I am saving seeds by collecting individually from each color plant, into envelopes labeled with those colors. They are open pollinates, so who knows what I will get, but saving the colors separately seems reasonable; My photo doesn't do them justice. They grew really nice.

What it's like to have a good hair day for a S.A. succulent bulb and find way into the misfit onion collection here. Any cosmologist would be proud of the up do style on (IMO) better stakes ( an update on a prior pic) Two shoots have growth that stretches to 35 feet from end to end Bowiea volubilis is ready for the town. Some of the other items that are called Misfit onions in the collection include Ornithogalum caudatum It use to have very very long growth w that just got in the way A fast wack and little more fatter it becomes. AKA The AKA "False Sea Onion is faster at pup/ baby making than anything else though. apx 180-200 of them over the past five years some are tossed in pots and mixed in with other sun loving suxs ( Euphorbia cuttings mostly most have been tossed as PIGs it's kind of a bummer that there not zone hardy A sweet fragrant flowering spike fills the late winter air inside. Host: Fast forward 35 or so years for that little one & you should have something that looks like this. You might not get yours to develop the split personality though. A little thirsty today while getting it's peeling back as I want the top to be self supporting Schizobasis intrica soon to come into flower Not always but can sometimes flower tiny little stars from it's tips twice with in a 12 month cycle