See these flowers? We aren't convinced they should still be flowering as summer solstice approaches (and after a couple of weeks of mega heat).
Mr B gave them to F before Christmas. They flowered for months on the kitchen windowsill. They were pink then (fairy pink if you get the idea). When they started to get a bit fed up with the pots they were in F put them in the garden - under the rhubarb (which I can avouch is a good place to be) and they have never stopped flowering.
Now what other plant gives you continuous flowering for over 6 months from winter solstice to summer solstice?
I like that stripy plant under what I think is lavender.
ReplyDelete😸teehee - that's ME Boud-Aunty (and my weed). F calls that catnip. I just call it weed.
ReplyDeleteNo kidding, never have guessed..
DeleteI've never grown them before, I think I tried once and wasn't successful
ReplyDeleteApparently lots of horse poo works well. F's Dad used to grow them at the first house they ever had (a Lands & Survey house up the Wilderness Road at Te Anau) and planted them in horse poo because there was plenty of that around as all the shepherds rode horses in those days. (He was a shepherd.)
DeleteMy winter pansies are still flowering but I've never had much success with catnip. Do you like catnip, Tigger? Not every cat does.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE catnip Janice-Aunty. I eat it, roll in it, slather over it,....
Delete6 months of colour. They're wonderful. Like the photo of you Tigger.
ReplyDeleteThank you Linda-Aunty
DeleteWe call that plant Primrose. You see them at the nursery just after Christmas and they do bloom through the spring when you really do need relief from the cold and dreary winter.
ReplyDeleteWe have no idea - primroses here seems to refer to the wild, pale yellow, ones that decorate the roadsides in Spring time. They get called Polyanthus if we can buy them in the garden centres.
DeleteTigger, whatcha thinking about? eating the weed? looking for a mouse? if it time for F to feed me? just wondering. Love the color of the bloom for 6 months plant.. good idea to place in the yard. I never had much luck with blooming plants for in inside. I would recive them as gifts, and sadly wait for them to shrivel and die, which all of them did
ReplyDeleteI had just sat up from rolling in the weed. I might have been a bit light-headed!
DeleteHari Om
ReplyDeleteThe gift that keeps on giving, then? Can't complain about that, eh? What a gawjuss pawtrait of you and your weed-nip... which does seem to be making the most of all the summer weather. Did you get rain yet, Tigger mate? Here at Aitch's we are under a big wide throw of summer drops and it is lovely. For the garden. For us too... cricket and tennis, y'know... hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx (who's back was complaining rather fiercely at all that driving yesterday, so some adjustments required. To the seat. Not the spine 😬)
Dear Yam-Aunty - get one of those comfy seats that turns around when you aren't driving and becomes your arm-chair. xxx Mr T
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