Signs of life

It's an unusually temperate 12°C today so I went out on the balcony for a look-see. There are already signs of life out there. The chives being able to overwinter was a given, but I was doubtful about the rest of the perennials. Glad at least some of them appear to have made it, and pleasantly surprised that the Violacea pallida is making an appearance for the second year in a row.

I was weak

Impulse purchases from a flower stand next to the métro:

With a very few exceptions (well, one, and it's the lemon thyme in the second pic), I promised myself to only grow from seed this year. What makes this worse is that I have already started my own semps from seed :P

Hopefully my from-seed semps are not green or red when they grow up.

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