Your azalea is blooming Bobert! The blooms are so delicate and unusual. I love it! I have lost the tag with the name. Can you tell me the name again? (It is a japanese azalea.) The solomon's seal is also blooming.

I have got to find time to get all these plants and shrubs I brought with me in the ground before the weather gets too warm, even it they go into a temporary bed. I'm just not home enough to keep the pots watered daily once the heat and drought hit this summer.

I DO have poppies! I tried to sow the different colors in separate sections of the one little bed that was here, and assuming no seeds drifted, it looks like at least a few of the double apricots germinated, in spite of the seeds being 2 years old.

Sunday week I transplanted some of the kale, lettuce and spinach seedlings out of the original pots I sowed into additonal pots, and thinned the remaining seedlings. Not sure how many kale or spinach I can grow in one pot. I decided to try three and feed them heavily. I can always pull two out if it looks like one plant is all a pot will support. The little pot of mesclun mix is about ready for a first harvest, and I've got green onions galore that I planted in an old oblong wrought iron planter that my grandmother used to plant geraniums on her front porch.

Sum Yung Sun was home on spring break last week. I left him a note telling him to cut grass and to use the gas can on the carport. He completely skipped that part and used the gas can with the gas/oil mix for the weedeater. Then wondered why the mower wouldn't start. I've got to ask a neighbor for a recommendation on where to take the mower here to have it serviced, and hope I can get it somewhere next weekend. In the meantime, the grass and weeds at the berm is 12 inches high and growing every day in all this rain.

Oh well.