For the past five years I have enjoyed the fragrant flowers from my pot of lily of the valley. They will open in the last week of October and will still look good on Cup day. I have left the corm untouched but would add compost and feed the plant seaweed solution. In late winter I did not see any sign of life from the pot. I was going to look for new plants but imagine my surprise when I noticed new life shooting through the soil. This picture is of my one and only stalk of lily of the valley and it will see Cup Day. I shall look for more corms and will plant them in the ground beneath the jacaranda. I have to pick the pot up to enjoy the sweet fragrance and it is worth it.
The flowers are opening up everywhere. The blue sage flowers and roses look so good together. The poppies are braving the heavy downpour but their delicate petals seem to survive. The mauve and red poppies look after themselves. They self sow and I try to thin them out but I hate throwing out seedling so they are transferred to different nooks and corners of the garden. I cannot say I have a neat and tidy garden but at the moment every inch seems to be blooming marvelous.
This dark red pelargonium is producing masses of flowers this year. I have a few shades of red of this easy to grow favourite. It grows so easily from cuttings. A neighbour came to ask for some cuttings and I am only too happy to give them away. That way I keep the bush pruned.
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