April Showers

Wait, why is it raining in April? Well, no matter, the wet spring is at least being good to my plants.

Most of my plants, that is. This sage that I planted in the front last year got immediately attacked by some kind of flies that loved chewing on the leaves. I was hoping that applying some insecticide might knock them back enough for the plant to out-grow their damage, but they didn't really manage it before the chill of winter set in, and while only one of them properly died, the other two were looking like pure ass and so I decided to ditch the lot of them and start over with something else.

After all, I can't exactly use the sage leaves in cooking if I'm constantly drenching them with insecticide.

In their place I decided to plant this sunpatiens. I'm hoping they're more patien than sun, since they're being planted on the north side of the house, but I guess we'll find out. They were in the shade section of the nursery so if this goes wrong I'll blame them.

And if they do die, you can write this variety down on your list of plants to not buy.

Speaking of dead plants, most of my lantana made it through the winter. One, however, did not. This trend is at least heading in the right direction.

So it's out with the dead and in with the live.

I went with a purple variety this time to see if it might be more hardy and for a bit of variety and definitely not because the nursery didn't have any of the confetti variety that I've been planting in prior years.

I guess we'll see if I just wasted $15. It should at least look nice for the summer.