The new Squashy Osage Moon watches over the earliest bedding plant sprouts of 2019, encouraging precocious coleus, pansies, geraniums and begonias with its waxing tide. And an inventory of outdoor flora for the New Year complements the lunar phase, so many plants now seeding or bowing as if to set their seeds. In my alley, tall coneflower stalks have collapsed around the telephone pole. In my south garden, the white boneset has toppled over, and the small white asters, their seed heads empty,