GARDEN/NATURE
Blooming Beauty
My garden is a joy
This is the flower bed from which my gardening friend helped me dig out the Osteospermum which had become rampant. In the foreground you see the frothy foliage of love-in-a-mist or Nigella. It is still in bud. The blue flowers there are a trailing campanula. I found a lot heading behind the jasmine, so I put it against the wall, as it clings to the brick. The Mexican daisies are thriving, and so is the climber behind it. It is hard to show as I need to lean right over to see it. There is a taller flower not yet in bloom. The brown mess on the right is where heavy rain has drenched last year’s dead leaves. I may use it as compost.
The pink is two new plants to replace a non-native that gave no pollen. It’s a hardy annual and pleases me. The pale blue is forget-me-not. I love it. Also some Mexican daisies.
Here is scabious. It is a favorite. Some lost petals in the torrential rain. I have no idea what the large leaves are. Time will tell.
May here is more like April. April was very dry indeed. At the beginning of May, I watered with the hose for the first time so early in in the year. Each time I have watered, there has been heavy rain the next day. May generally gets showers with warm weather.
Climate catastrophe is here, in my opinion.
