Today it didn’t warm up until about 3pm, so I was a bit late getting going, but when I did get going I made a start on weeding flower bed 4. Now flower bed 4 is the worst of the flower beds (apart from flower bed 5 which I’ve already abandoned). I’ve never really ‘bottomed’ it, if you know what I mean, though it does have plenty of potential.

About 3 or 4 years ago a pale yellow verbascum appeared of it’s own accord in number 4, it was a lovely plant, and I saved it’s seeds to try to grow some more, but with no success.

The hardy perennial seeds that I sowed last year included some verbascums (pink, white and purple) which I planted in flower bed 1, and I noticed when I weeded it the other day they are beginning to show little rosettes of green leaves, so that’s good news.

Anyway, today as I was weeding flower bed 4 I noticed some little rosettes of green leaves in the same area as the yellow verbascum had been some years ago. I went to compare these rosettes to those in flower bed 1, and decided that they could well be baby yellowverbascums. As they were in a rather silly position, I carefully dug them up, replanted them and watered them in.

So far, so good. The only problem is, there is a weed, I don’t know it’s name, that has very similar leaves. It could be I’ve just wasted my time by carefully transplanting 3 weeds! To be honest, I do have form for this. I once transplanted and nurtured what I thought was a lavatera, which turned out to be some rampant triffid that would take over the world given half a chance.

Another time I carefully lifted what I thought were impatiens seedlings around the base of a summer pot, only to find they were hairy bittercress! Only time will tell if it’s third time lucky.