The two plants in the one window box are Heliotropium arborescens and Osteospermum "Orange Symphony."
My latest indoor plant (which I expect to die) is Exacum: sturdy green little leaves and lavender flowers with a yellow inside. Of the two plants with variegated foliage I bought last year, one has done well, and the other has died and its replacement is also not doing well. Is the pot cursed? Do you really have to wash a pot between plants? They live in dirt, after all.
Today was one of those maintenance days. I deadheaded the Exacum and hanging petunias, dug a border in along the north boundary and grassed the bishop's weed, mowed and weedwacked, and mulched around the Caryopteris clandonensis and Agastache x blue fortune. I moved the basil from pots into the north frame because RDC reminded me it dries out too fast in pots. And I put cages around the tomatoes, weeded the south fence, and raked up sunflower husks to add to the lasagne mulch (which is in serious need of greens): it did so well over the winter that the only uncomposted element is sunflower seeds, so adding more wasn't that bright.
It wasn't so stupid, either. Despite the cool, relatively damp spring and the good snowpack making this a good year to replace the grassesque with a more apt sod, we've been considering that it would be best to replace the patio and walkway before the sod, so the one process doesn't undo the other. So I have a while to cook another lasagne, and then the new sod will have lots of yummy new loam to nourish itself with.
Besides the mowing, I don't see a lot of difference. When you dust, you see a difference, but it doesn't last; when you weed, you see a difference, but it doesn't last. But if you don't dust or weed, you regret it. So tedious.