Not the kind that you would want to eat. Lactuca saligna is a weed, and either it's more abundant this year than in years past or I'm just noticing it more. It's like prickly lettuce but with narrower leaves. I've grown lettuce for ornament quite often; in container gardens and perennial borders mostly. It's hard to harvest the leaves sometimes so I usually just end up taking out a single plant if I need some.
I lament that I didn't plant any this year. And I didn't get a large container planted with clarkia seeds in time to enjoy the crepe-textured flowers by early summer. Sigh. It's that time of year when I begin to lament that I didn't get time to do things that can't be done now that really warm weather is scheduled to make itself known this weekend. Soon the frantic days of spring will transition into the slower pace of summer. That's probably a good thing.
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