Maybe a little mould, but maybe not. Anyway, I’d put it in cold stratification on 21-02-15, and sprinkled it around the edges in the area where I planted the new common milkweed on 29-03-15. The goddamned cats will dig it up, but I have neither the time nor the energy to cover it all with chicken wire or frost blanket or whatever; I have thousands of seeds I must get in the ground, and I need to make places for them!

1030h. There. 3000 swamp milkweed seeds on the inside of the extended area, and hopefully, the blood meal I sprinkled on top will deter the cats and not burn any seedlings that may (or may not!) appear in the next few weeks. If I ever get the butterfly weed seed pods, those will go on the outside. Not sure yet where the bloodflower milkweed will go; it’s an annual, so it really doesn’t matter much.

I accomplished little; it was quite chilly with the wind, and there’s really little I can do until danger of frost has passed, but I did wander the flowerbeds. Coneflower, black-eyed susan, coreopsis and penstemon are coming along, and the tall phlox that was planted too late to do much will hopefully perform better this year.

I’m indifferent to crabapple, but I do love spring blooms, and I should see some soon.

Spicebush is blooming this year; the first time ever. First, it was too young, and then I lost a year by moving it, but it’s doing well. The new stuff I planted looks like it’s getting buds, too, but they’re very small. I’m happy as long as it lives. Spicebush blooms are tiny things.

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