>The parking area around my apartment building is being revamped – whenever they actually turn up and do some work – which means that the flower beds and shrubberies will be run over with a bulldozer later this year, so I’ve been going on a few nightly outings to gather seed stands from various plants that won’t be there next year anyway.
Giant red poppies, chives, columbines, just to mention a few. My dining table is set with plates of seed stands laid out to dry so I can collect the seeds and sow them around my garden. Knowing little about gardening, I’m thinking that if a plant sheds its seeds in July, then July is a perfectly good month to spread those seeds in what will become the flower meadow in the garden.
I haven’t been up to the summer house for two weeks, as last weekend I was visiting my boyfriend in Scotland (why, yes; he bought us a summer house and then moved abroad…), but I’m going up there tomorrow for the weekend and I’m looking forward to seeing how the sunflower and dahlia seedlings I planted two weeks ago are doing. The weather has been hot and dry, so I’m counting on at least some casualties, but hopefully some will have thrived and will be doing their thing. (The advantage of the high water level in the garden is that only the top few centimeters ever dry out entirely.)
Pics of the developments will follow on Monday…
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