I'm very disappointed that my entire garlic crop seems to have failed. A dozen or more shoots were up a month or so ago... and then they just sort of died and disappeared. I've heard others had this problem, so I assume it's the weather and not just me.
In any case, I've been seeing flowers blooming all over the place though ours have been slow. Two of our phlox varieties are blooming and the Bleeding Heart.
My first Siberian Iris bloomed just this morning:
It's hard to tell the size... and still sort of hard even with my hand in the picture. But these are smaller than regular Iris.
They grow in a large clump that looks sort of like grass and dozens of these beauties bloom at the same time. They're one of my favorite flowers in the yard.
In other garden news, what happens when you let your chive plants go to seed?
Baby chives!! Lots of baby chives. I saw these yesterday and thought for a moment it was grass - but there was something about it... I picked off a piece to chew and they were chives. There are a dozen or more in this spot and a few in other areas. They each consist of two or three little chive blades and, did I mention, they're tiny?
They are to the left and front of one of our main chive plants here, near the stepping stone. See them? Like I said, they're tiny!
This is very exciting though for our plans of turning the terrace into a perennial herb garden. Chives are taking over this spot for sure!
Also recently I planted out the top of the terrace with a variety of thyme. There is also some parsley and nasturtium up there. Unfortunately parsley is an annual here. And frankly, I've never seen nasturtium re-seed itself. (I guess it would help if Jeremy would stop eating the flowers before they can go to seed!)