I've never bought Gazanias before but they were in the sale at Sarah Raven (mail order) so I thought I'd give them a go. I'm rather pleased with the deep maroon colour as I have so many purples this year. The hover fly suited it too. I'm suspecting a looming disaster in the garden - plants that don't normally flower until late July are beginning to bloom - I think the borders may be all done and dusted by August and I'll have to take potentially expensive steps to make it nice for my mum and dad's Diamond Wedding party!
Three good things: 1 a cooler night last night before the southern half of the nation gets collectively bad-tempered.
2. Enough flowers in my cutting beds to give to neighbours.
3. Cotton wool stuffed in Monty's ears seemed to help with the fireworks last night!
That's lovely. I've bought lots ofstuff from her over the past few years, it's all lovley stuff. I think this is called a marmalade hover fly if my memory serves me right. Isn't giving people flowers you have grown yourself a joy? I'm even more annoyed with myself now that I didn't get my act together with my cutting garden this year.
I've never heard of these flowers before but like the combination of colours. The hover fly is the finishing touch! A cutting garden sounds very countryfile! I just have dead bulb leaves littering my front garden. Weeding over the weekend before the visitors & we are having a party too!
Excellent capture. Interesting narrative - although you make me feel guilty about the lack of attention our garden gets. I haven't noticed anything being cooler, but we had a hint of collective bad-temper in the office yesterday, followed by collective apathy today. It was 33 degrees C inside our office.
Grea color coordination and focus, beautiful flower, and a total treat to see you here again. I think of you with all the horrendous things going on in your country...of course we have Trump which is our own form of Hell
Glad to find you posting again Judith :-) I used Sarah Raven this year too, for some wildflower mix. I now get bombarded by her catalogues with such beautiful but expensive things inside. I love the warm weather, it eases my aches and pains but our office is like a chiller cabinet with the air conditioning and I'm wearing a cardigan and silk scarf!! Excellent photo, love the colour scheme.
@Cherrill I was tempted back in when the dale started! I ruined the seedlings by planting out too soon (mostly- the ones that went in pots are enormous) but the plants I've grown from seed have been brilliant (would have been more brilliant if I'd labelled them so I knew what was what a bit sooner!!)
Hi Judith, I've been away from 365 but am back again and found out that you're still here! I am happy to follow you with all your great Cambridge pics (my sun studied for a year in Cats).
