
Some more daffodils have opened.

And I'm still impatiently watching the buckeye leaf out slowly, day by day.

Spring came early for some kind of digging creature/varmint that comes around at night to vex the garden. This is an anti-digging strategy I came up with. People sometimes stick plastic spoons in the ground to deter squirrels and such... I cut up some unused nursery stakes and poked them in the ground around recent additions.

(I'd apply
Critter Ridder, but I suspect wet, rainy weather renders it ineffective, and it's expensive.)
These
Ipheion uniflorum do not come back for me from year-to-year like they're supposed to. I buy a bag of them from time to time instead. They're okay. Buying a bag of them for $4 once a year is kind of a habit now.

Calif. native geophyte
Zigadenus fremontii is new to the g this year. I very much hope this one will come back again next year.

The red-flowered
Delphinium cardinale from Southern California sure did! I'm very happy about it. All three of them have come back this year in fact, and I recently added a fourth.

Unfortunately, however, I might be losing
Leucospermum. Or at least half of it. This half looks terrible.

This half not so terrible.

I'll just have to wait and see, I guess.
Speaking of waiting and seeing, in the seedlings department...
I divided these
Rudbeckia triloba today. My first Rudbeckia. I saw this plant with flowers still on it in November in Berkeley and I thought that would be nice for me too.
Echium pininana--these have come a long way since you last saw them on
Feb-4. These grow into 10' spikes, straight up. Straight up is the hope anyway. I wouldn't want them to lean. Not sure when I should plant them out, but if this rate of progress continues, I guess that question will answer itself.

Any idea what this could be? I remember throwing some seed here... I hate it when I do that.

These are its seed leaves:

And I planted out all this
Symphotrichum chilensis from a pinch of seeds I collected in Big Sur last November. This could very well turn out to be an invasive plant in my garden--both by spreading underground parts, and future seedlings--so I'll have to keep an eye on it.

[Not] texas bluebonnet, from
Christopher C.
It was looking very yellow in the pot, so I thought I better plant it out in real soil. It's always possible that Texas bluebonnet would be happier in Texas than San Francisco. I guess we'll find out. [But this is
Lupinus polyphyllus, so that theory is meaningless.]
Solanum lypersicum 'Mountain Princess'. This is my furthest-along tomato, a 45-DTM variety from Baker Creek.

Tomatoes I'm also growing this year: '4th of July', 'Gold Nugget', 'Early Cherry', 'Stupice'.
Soon enough, everything will get planted out in the vegetable garden. For now, I still have a few winter snap peas.

I love the emergent chaos in the garden this time of year.