Looking good.

I haven't seen thai basil before. What's the difference between it and sweet basil? Or is this your first time to grow it?

LOVE your Iris bed Vera! Is that Muscari and Hens and Chicks with them?

All your seedlings look great. I had a few questions...what kind of potting soil do you use? I don't see any green algae growing in your containers and I get a lot in mine and wondering if it is the soil mix. Will you plant these out Hunk of Seed method or pot them up individually?

Love all your photos that you post. :-)
PM2

Thanks!

mo_girl,

Thai Basil (AKA Siam Queen Thai) is licorice flavored. They can grow to 3' with purple stems and flowers (if you let them flower). Personally I don't see much difference in taste when they do flower...the beneficials LOVE these flowers and that's really why I like basil. I'm not a big fan of any basil flavor but do use it sparingly from time to time :D

Hi Prairiemoon :D

That is sedum album planted along the front...the stuff I've been trying to get rid of forever! I'll give it some credit tho because it will look gorgeous when it blooms; looks like fluffy snow. There's also alot of Viola, some White Swan Echinacea, Sweet William and Milkweed (just poking out) in there nearer to the Lavender and out of the picture is German Winter Thyme and Citrus Thyme and some baby self-sown Munstead Lavender I moved in a few weeks back. Then there is Rose Campion on the other side of the Iris.

Vera

The color and texture of the sedum looks gorgeous with those muscari and iris foliage. I have sedum acre that edges a bed and I have been tempted to rip it all out because it travels too quickly for me too, but my daughter talked me out of it because she likes it. So I gave her the job of keeping it in bounds. [g] Now that she trimmed it back it looks nice. It doesn't have that gorgeous color though and will bloom yellow.

Good job on your bed. :-)

Hi Prairiemoon,

That gorgeous color will be all green by the time it blooms here in few weeks...they are in the proccess of turning green now :D
BTW there is just that one small patch of sedum at the very front showing in the picture...the rest of the "cover" in their are fallen leaves from my neighbors tree last fall.
I wish trimming it was all I need to keep it in check...when you trim this one, bump it, a cat walking thru, ect, each little tiny succulent leaf that falls to the ground makes a new plant! I removed it twice and by the following spring there are more plants that have gotten started. I think they continue to grow thru winter O:

Vera