More Herbal Goodness

Quite a while back, I bought six huge turquoise ceramic planters from a housewares shop that was going out of business. I gave four of the huge pots to Lovely Daughters #1 and #2, who use them to grow their herbs.

But mine remained empty for a long time. Until last weekend. As her belated Valentine's Day gift to me, Lovely Daughter #1 accompanied me to the garden store, and to my friend C's, to pick up some potting mix and some of C's leftover herbs from her full-to-spilling-over herb garden.

Then LD#1 and I potted everything up and set them in a sunny spot on my porch.

Some of the leftover herb plants I got from C look pretty good, like this sage:

Some, like this oregano, are mostly sticks with just a few bits of green on them. But below the surface is a mature root ball ready to throw up quite a big plant, come late spring:

I never saw sage flowers or buds close up. They're very charming:

I run out each morning to take a look at the herbs, in hopes that they're ready to burst forth in an explosion of green.

Not yet, but soon!, they seem to say. After all, things take thyme.

Ahem.