come up

All my new plants are sprouting in the greenhouse!

Outside, spears of gladiolas are coming up on the sideyard. Tithonias look great, one aster died. My purple clematis is blooming again, lavender is flowering, cardinal climbers are starting to go up the trellis. More sweet peas are in flower, lots of white nicotiana, and a hummingbird visited yesterday. I only caught a glimpse of it, though. At first I thought it was a cicada!

I pulled the older tokyo bekana and cut off all the dried seedpods. Just as many more were still too green. Even all these weren't good- on opening, more than half were mildewed. 

Still got plenty of seed, though!