The first tomatoes have appeared! Clear Pink Early and Petitbec were the first to flower and have the most tomatoes developing so far. EM-Champion, Japanese Black Trifele, and Reinhard's Chocolate Heart each have one little tomato. I thought Andean, which is an early-midseason variety, would have more flowers than it does at this point, and that it would have started developing tomatoes. Early Annie, which I have grown in past years, also seems to be lagging behind.
Clear Pink Early tomato
Petitbec tomato
Garlic scapes (the curlicues in the middle of the plants - click picture to enlarge) have begun to grow.
At last! The Bonbon calendula has started to bloom...
...and the marigolds have, too.
The Gold Harvest peas (dry peas) are putting out flowers. They are soft pink and cream coloured, very delicate.
Indoors, the orchid is in full bloom. Pretty! We're starting to think of this as the "Everlasting Orchid". It was just starting to bloom when I returned to BC last September. Those blooms lasted months. In late Spring, they fell off the branch one-by-one, and a new branch formed while the original branch dried up. Less than a month later, these orchids started blooming. If these bloom last as long as the first ones did, we will have had almost a solid year with orchids on this plant.
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