Not Just Weeds, And It's Still Raining!

 Some of us are utterly relaxed staying at home, alternating between good naps and good meals.

Others are natural worriers, restless, melancholy, wondering what they can do. 

Not just weeds appearing with our rains of March.  April has brought a February storm.  It's still raining!  Some areas of Southern California have gotten 9" of rain.  We must be up over 4" (100 mm) here after three (or four?) days of rain.  An additional reason to stay home, unfortunately indoors. 

Though many weeds have sprouted and most have been pulled, desirable plants have also sprouted from wind-blown seed.   

And there are actual puddles!!!  

Besides the reliable, generous re-seeders like Lobularia, Cerinthe, Hunnemannia, Lavender, and Eschscholzia californica, there are a few others that will add extra color to the garden later this year.    

Instead of going out plant-shopping, I've been filling empty spots by moving desirable seedlings.  The cool wet weather makes moving a small, vulnerable seedling easy. 
Cerinthe, a bee and hummingbird favorite, one of the generous ones:

 Here are a few of the not-so-typicals.

 Lobelia erinus.  A single seedling appeared last year, a little cloud of blue beauty.  
June 2019:

After the plant died in summer's heat, I walked around shaking the plant in likely spots, hoping to get seedlings.  Luckily, several have appeared. 

Never enough of these little mounds of true-blue flowers.  Rabbit protection required when small:

 Leonotis leonurus. 
A living hummingbird feeder when in flower, so of course more than one plant is ideal.  This seedling moved to the sunniest part of the back gully, is growing vigorously.  

Sideritis cypria.
Several generations on from the original plant, a gift from A Growing Obsession that keeps on giving:

Dorycnium hirsutum, now reclassified as Lotus hirstutus.  New plants appeared near the original, which was a gift two or three years ago from Late To The Garden Party, 

A nice accidental pairing with a copper sedum:

Trachelium caeruleum.  As with the Lobelia, I shook dried flower stalks of 2019 plants in different areas last fall.  Several seedlings as a result. 

Along with rooted cuttings of Fuchsias and Salvias growing happily in this cool weather,  the repetition of plants will make the garden a little less of a PBG (Personal Botanic Garden) and a little more unified (and flowery).  

We're protecting other people by staying home, so stay home we will.  We must not forget the workers who financially need to work but can't, and the workers who work despite the danger involved.   

And it's still raining outside.  Weirdest thing.