These vacuum-sealed seeds sit patiently in their packets, like tiny astronauts waiting for their mission to begin sometime in the next decade. The garden's regular cast of characters recently welcomed some fresh faces to the ensemble - stately foxgloves practicing their posture, peonies preening in anticipation of their debut, pansies perfecting their perky expressions, and hollyhocks stretching toward the sky like eager understudies. Nature's little theater company grows more colorful with each season.