I keep sorting through my seed packets. The first selection is a simple division between the ones that need sowing now, and the ones that I want (can) sow later. Then it's between direct sowing, and under cover. Under cover can be in the greenhouse or in the study where I have put some staging. The next question is seedtray, module or individual pots? With or without plastic lid? Heated propagator (I've got a simple electric one) or not? 

It is doing my head in. The number of packets doesn't seem to go down despite the space for trays and modules getting smaller and smaller. There are seed packets everywhere, they are being put aside, or put on the same pile, and then the whole sorting thing can start again. 

Some seed is so fussy that it doesn't actually help this whole process. Bells of Ireland (Moluccella laevis) got top marks for complication as it had to go in the freezer first for a week and then in a seedtray. I've sown those and am now of course counting on those beautiful green spikes even though the seedlings have yet to appear.

Good thing I could just do my flowers today. As toddler had fallen asleep on the couch, I was limited to what the garden rather than the allotment could give me. I am not complaining as the spring is bringing plenty of flowers. While putting them together teenager made me laugh by asking "Where are all those flowers coming from?". I was twice his age when I started to notice anything with leaves or flowers, so no wonder he doesn't see what is out there. I probably should be grateful that it is being noticed at all that I am doing something with flowers.

I once read that forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica) poison other flowers while in a vase, just like daffodils. Not sure if that is really true, but nevertheless I set out to make a double-walled vase using a killner jar, an emptly glass jar and some floristry wire.

Remember the white tulips that appeared in my pink/blue border? I now remember how they ended up there as some purple ones also appeared next to them. Two years ago I bought a mix which was described more "blue" or definitely as blue as tulips get, than they turned out. Apart from them not being what I thought they were, the disadvantage of the mix is also that they flower at different times. While the white ones have nearly finished, the purple ones are only just in bud. 

It really doesn't make for a great display (note to self: don't every buy tulip mixes again), but now the purple ones will be great for the vase, together with the forget-me-nots, Cerinthe major and some hellebores. I dipped the stems of the forget-me-nots in boiling water, as that is supposed to prolong their vase life. 

 

I also put some daffodils (Cheerfulness) in a little vase next to some more forget-me-nots, so it makes a little trio. I'm slightly annoyed that the forget-me-nots are more cyan blue in the pictures than they really are, but I've taken several photos and I can't improve on it. But I am sure you'll get the idea.