The tiny Kannah Creek buckwheat is blooming nicely for the first time. It's been years, and this little plant has never done much. It's been moved multiple times, but here it is finally settling in.
Nothing like the large shrub it is supposed to be though. Still a tiny thing, with just a dozen pom pom spikes. Will it ever have the size and shape of this --
The circle garden with the white bowl in the center is coming along, but so slowly. Everything around the circle is either new and tiny or several years old and tiny. And the thyme surrounding the bowl is a mess where I took out all the perennials last fall.
It has greened up well, but the empty spots are still bare and there was a lot of brown dieback at the edges. I know it needs some really hot dry weather to get going. It will spread out and fill the holes when summer comes, at least so I hope.
But now it is so patchy and uneven. And the Vermillion cuphea in the bowl is a tiny twig, not yet anything promising to look at. It got stripped by the hail last week, and it needs some hot weather to start growing too.
It's in the low 50s at night, still cold for this time of year, so the garden hasn't taken off yet.
I wait.