Oh dear @proto26 - I'm sorry to hear you are feeling down. Maybe the coming sunshine will lift you up a little, or maybe you could streamline things and just decide to grow one patch, chuck a few seeds around, and hope for the best - sometimes we need to let things go and in the end the result suprises us. I'm sure in the height of summer you'll be feeling more cheerful and you'll have more successes than you thought.

The beecups are interesting. I use bird baths with rocks in them so the bees can creep to the edge to drink. A lot of people forget to feed bees and they are so important, as us gardeners know.

Sorry I took so long to get to this. xx