First of all, help! Does anybody know what this perennial is? It comes from my mother’s garden where it never did anything spectacular, perhaps because it was standing in full shade, but with a bit of sun it has turned into something wonderful. It’s about half a meter in height and I love it to bits.
Then there’s the courtyard. It’s a mess, to be frank, with weeds in the pavement (more weeds than pavement, it seems) and pots that have been knocked over by the wind, but it is also lush and overgrown and in some casual way rather lovely. The glads are beginning to make a show of themselves, and you can also see the lavatera (‘Mont Blanc’) making an effort to show why it was a good thing that Alistair tempted me (unwittingly) into buying some seeds. Between them is the newly purchased clematis ‘Multi Blue’; another temptation that has proved worth while, even though I didn’t expect it to do much this first year.
The beans (purple and green) have given a moderate yield so far and look set to give more if only I would be here to pick them as and when they ripen, but sadly I probably won’t. The same goes for the cherry tomatoes. Sad, but I sort of knew that from the beginning. Perhaps next year I shall have more time to be here doing the growing season, since I won’t be busy decorating an apartment and so on?
And finally there is your’s truly in front of the type of flowers I really like: Flowers that are taller than myself! We do have a few different varieties of goldenrods, it seems, as they grow to different heights and have slightly different flowering habits, but they are all tall and showy and able to rise above however many weeds they grow between.
I will be here until tomorrow late morning, and then I won’t be back for another 3 weeks, so I will be doing a heavy cull of flowers before I leave to go to a friend’s leaving do (she’s moving to Stockholm/Sweden). Surely a bunch of home-grown flowers will be a suitable leaving present.
Crocosmia, silly! Also known as montbresia. Common as muck in Ireland, grows like a weed along with the other invaders fuchsia and rhododendron.
You are looking even more dashing than ever xxx
Why, thank you!
As for calling me silly… Having identified 250+ of the plants growing in our garden, I dare say I might be excused for not knowing a plant that happens to be endemic in Ireland. After all I’ve only been to Ireland once… (And I seem to recall I got drunk and made kale quiche, but apart from that little has remained in my memory.)
Lovely flowers and I think they would be a perfect moving present. 🙂 I too, am especially thrilled with flowers that get bigger than me!!!
There’s a certain subtle OOMPF over a 6-foot perennial in bloom!
Most people think goldenrod is a weed, and in some case perhaps but I still like it. I can’t find the variety that I fell in love with so many years ago, it grows everywhere in central Germany and that’s the first time I saw it. Incredible yellow flowers, volunteered easy to grow. Very nice indeed
In my mind it’s a weed if it grows in the forest and a lovely perennial in any garden. In Europe it’s an invasive species, so really it’s not completely PC to have it in a garden as it might spread. However, it’s become more or less endemic, so I guess we just have to live with it in our countryside. There are far worse things we have to accept here in life than a tall, pretty plant!
I know I should be commenting on the flowers and vegetables. But you’re a really handsome guy, so I’m gonna comment on that instead!
I also really like the new format for your blog, by the way. I haven’t been stopping by my favourite blogs as much as I’d like to lately, so I’m taking this day off of mine to laze around and do so 🙂
You flatter my looks? You flatter the looks of my blog?
You just bought my undying love! Sod Chuck; leave him and marry me!
(Yeah… I’m THAT shallow…)