Looks great!! guess what?? i was looking thru all of my stuff yesterday, and i found some blue flax!! WOO HOO!! so i am so happy!! i have 3 of them!! now all i have to do is find a place and plant them there :')) that doesnt have quack grass!! LOL

I'm knowing about that flippen quackgrass!! I had pretty good luck smothering it out when I made a new bed a few years ago with newspaper, cardboard and lots of leaves and straw. My entire so called patch of grass is mostly quack, Downy Brome and Cheat Grass. I'm not a advocate for chemicals, but I don't know why I haven't rounded it all up and made flower beds out of it yet LOL! Hate it!

Vera

Vera your plants look good, as always! What kind of lavender is that and does it stay bloomed thru frost?
Carol

There's that blue flax again! It looks great with everything.

Question - can I sow blue flax (perennial) now? And have plants big enough to overwinter? I've tried it three times now and got nothing. Maybe it's the seeds ....

PV

That is Lavender 'Munstead' and the wands will get taller....they've just started within the last week. I'll harvest the wands just when the first few buds actually open all the way. Re-bloom will happen around late July first week in August, but no it's never lasted until frost. The length of time between buds to fully opened flowers to seed setting in summer is much faster than the first round. Actually I only let the 2nd round fully flower and set seeds for the finches who love to eat the seeds and for self-sown babies :)

Nice, Vera. So much going on in your garden. Great variety. I heart that Lavender.

Looks great Vera!
What a differnce in our zones, my blue flax is done for now.
My broccoli started to head up but my cukes only have 2 leaves.

busylizzy,

Blue Flax got a later start than normal this year...thanks to our below average April and May temperatures :)