A thrush has realised the yellow strawberries are edible, so this terrible planter is now for the birds. It’ll liven up in time.
I saw this when walking home, funny to look at my own garden and be surprised.
The pile is expanding.
Okay, some photos are meh, but they’re WIPs, the heuchera chunks are starting to regrow!
It can’t all be pretty flowers, well it could but I refuse!
Okay, this need a primer…see below.
Yo, Dear Reader, the plants above are Lucifer’s Crocosmia, I know that because they came into my garden years ago as mystery bulbs, established far too invasively and that’s when the fun started, buckle in, Dear Reader, this gets strange in places. I took up a clump of these that were in a pot, they’d filled the pot with bulbs, not roots mind, bulbs, that was taken rudely and hurled into the then junk heap. It was covered over the years with more junk and eventually it was set on fire, it was matted several times and presumed dead…so to recap: Uprooted, hurled, set ablaze, smothered several times and then today I see it poking out of the matting and I am in awe, Dear Reader, it has earned its place. I just wish every plant could be that tenacious.
This rose came with it actually, it’s less invasive, but not by much.
I once lamented there were too many pink roses and now I just admire how varied they are.
Hebe and wire plant, but just found and left to root after feeding and they’ve done so well.
Really need to clean them up this year. They never went dormant last year.
Such a pretty rose, sadly there weren’t any in the store this year.
Since we’re talking about unkillable plants, I have to talk about the yellow strawberries, that I think is fair to call them naturalised at this stage, Dear Reader, I find them everywhere, in any pot, on the ground and you can yank them up, pot them and they’ll just set fruit. The aforementioned thrush walked up to a new plant with a berry, looked at me in askance and tore it off, before again looking at me, I don’t want your beaky berry thanks!, and devouring it. I’m surprised as most birds ignore them for the colour. I found that plant the other day, with fruit and it didn’t even register being repotted. So when it came to filling the planter that causes so much heartache, I just grabbed a tray of plants I’d found and repotted and set to it again. I’ll get fruit in time, I have them in a tyre, a coal scuttle, two planters and now in a wall planter. They started as seeds and are now a fixture. I have also found three new red strawberry plants and am currently repotting and rediscovering so many salvaged plants. A lot of work goes in to the garden, Dear Reader, but the joy is brings is far vaster. I hope the heat holds so I can have a break from everything and just garden, I’ll take what I can get, Dear Reader. I’ll be back again soon, until then stay safe and take care.
The Secret Garden Squash is flowering.
The Rambler is starting to get green again. More light from here on so I hope it’ll do even better next year.
The Hebe has a white segment too. Really cool.
The nasturtium I found with a bit of root is back too.
The fig tree stays neat and compact, perfect for that spot.
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