Archive for May, 2004

May 2004 Gardening Notes

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

[4 for $10 -- grr, they charged for 5]
Upright Rosemary (a)
Mrs Burns Lemon Basil (a)
Sweet Basil (b)
Curled Parsley (a)

(a) SummerWindsNursery.com
(b) Woodbridge WGardensInc.com

Kimono Mix of Celosia $3.50
Magestic Giants Blue Shades Pansy $2.69
Silver Thyme $2.69

Improved Meyer Lemon [height 6' to 10' at maturity, from FourWindsGrowers.com; prune in warm months] $29.99
Pot & caddy for lemon: 7.99 + 14.99

Hydrangea $16.99
Pot & saucer for hydrangea: 6.99 + 4.99

Seed packets, price varied & on packet, all from BotanicalInterests.Com:

Calendula – Pacific Beauty – Calendula officinalis
Dill – Dukat – Anethum graveolens
Chives – Common – Allium schoenprasum
Nasturtium – Alaska – Tropaeolum majus (6 planted in with the pansies)
Catnip – Nepeta cataria (started a dash each in two small pots; then 2 small pots of cat grass)
Chile Pepper – Ancho/Poblano – capsicum annuum (started in three square pots, 4 seeds each, 10-25 days to emerge)
Sunflower – Moulin Rouge – Helianthus annuus (hybrid)

2 cf “supersoil” $7.99