Beautiful Bellis

We took a slight detour on the way home today in order to walk through one of the local parks. It was sad to see the winter bedding looking forlorn, battered by a combination of excessive salty wind, unforgiving hail and relentless rain.  This Bellis perennis however was doing its best to draw attention away from the frazzled foliageContinue reading “Beautiful Bellis”

Gunnera

It was an indulgent day yesterday.  I reserved a whole day solely for working in my own garden.  An enormous bronze fennel was dug up and the space filled with a Grevillea victoriae that was waiting patiently in the wings.  Both the commonplace and more unusual were sown, unnamed tagetes, Papaver “Patty’s Plum”, Canna braziliensis and Alcea ficifolia.  I potted on anyContinue reading “Gunnera”