The flowers are still flowering. They are really interesting, new petals keep popping up and then they sort of die off falling over to the back so it’s a bit like a fan. The orange petals and purple ‘tongue’ keep alternating. I think we may have had one flower last year, but it’s nothing like this.
The council uses Birds of Paradise flowers a lot, I think because they don’t take much looking after. Those are planted direct in the ground as well as in pots and the ones in the ground spread a bit into clumps. I guess ours won’t do that as it’s in a small pot but we may put it in the ground at some point so it will be interesting to see what happens.
Two new ones are coming through as well now – don’t they look like beaks!
We’ve got a lot more flowers at the moment.
Nasturtians are everywhere, and we’ve been removing great clumps of them as they have pretty much taken over part of the garden and are growing in the walls.
We did make a nasturian leaf pesto sauce though, so they do have some purpose (as well as the ‘capers’ we made from picked seeds).
And our air plants have started flowering – plus the plant that I took a cutting of from the beach
I can’t remember what it’s called, but it’s an invasive species, so hopefully I won’t regret having planted it (given I’ve just been moaning about nasturtians taking over…). However this is on a little piece of land which is rocky and the other side of the gate so if this plant stops weeds, I’ll be happy.
Talking of cuttings, my little cutting pile is doing well. I think all of these are cuttings. I seem to do really well with rose cuttings and I literally don’t do anything that breaking off a bit and sticking it in soil. I don’t even cut them, just badly break a bit off. I wonder if it’s because it’s largely ‘wild’ roses and therefore perhaps are less finicky than others.
Just need to work out now where to put them as it’s not very practical having all these pots for dogs and cats to run in to.
The roses are largely climbing roses so would be good along the walls perhaps.
