I've been sneaking a look at some pots I planted up this time last year, and they're sprouting away underground. The Paeonies have roots, and the Trilliums have little shoots which aren't ready to emerge yet. I've grown Paeony seed before, but not Trillium, apart from self-setters from the very few seeds mine manage to set. After a year, I find it hard to go on believing that the wretched pot is ever going to produce anything at all.
