The oleander below my balcony is pink and red. That makes a change from the yellow and orange that has dominated the garden since spring began.
Caterpillars are eating the nasturtiums. They might as well because heat will punish the plants soon anyway - it did last year.
The NZ Spinach has gone a bit out-of-control. Not my department - F makes pies out of it but she's not eating it fast enough.
Local people harvest all sorts of green weeds from the area above our beach - HORTA they call it - but they don't use the spinach from the garden.
However they are not averse to digging up whole plants of other things with pretty flowers on them and taking them away completely; as if their private admiration and enjoyment of the flowers is of more value than the pleasure they give to hundreds of people who walk by and pause.
I watch the passers-by looking at the flowers.
Update: I asked F to publish this when she had taken some photos of the flowers. Today is 1 May and we woke to find the garden had been stripped of every bloom - stripped from end to end, and people are starting on the foliage now. There are no flowers left to photograph and still people are shamelessly trampling the garden to tear out handfuls of the plants. Cars are even stopping by the garden for people to get out and strip more from what remains.
Go figure
Caterpillars are eating the nasturtiums. They might as well because heat will punish the plants soon anyway - it did last year.
The NZ Spinach has gone a bit out-of-control. Not my department - F makes pies out of it but she's not eating it fast enough.
Local people harvest all sorts of green weeds from the area above our beach - HORTA they call it - but they don't use the spinach from the garden.
However they are not averse to digging up whole plants of other things with pretty flowers on them and taking them away completely; as if their private admiration and enjoyment of the flowers is of more value than the pleasure they give to hundreds of people who walk by and pause.
I watch the passers-by looking at the flowers.
Update: I asked F to publish this when she had taken some photos of the flowers. Today is 1 May and we woke to find the garden had been stripped of every bloom - stripped from end to end, and people are starting on the foliage now. There are no flowers left to photograph and still people are shamelessly trampling the garden to tear out handfuls of the plants. Cars are even stopping by the garden for people to get out and strip more from what remains.
Go figure
You should have taken photos!!
ReplyDeleteHope the oleander have them a rash...at least
It's recovering and the upstairs neighbour goes out very early every morning to water it which helps.
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