Potager flowers
Let’s drown you in colour.
This is what my Wednesday mornings look like.
Buckets of blooms.
I come back from my mountain walking loop and get out the secateurs and buckets of water for the blooms.
Dahlias galore right now.
And for my fillers I have settled into a routine of yellows – achilleas, santolina flowers, and my bupleurum fruticosum.
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Mauves of agastache liquorice blue, verbena bonariensis.
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Greens with my favourite choiysa Aztec pearl.
And just about anything else that I spot on my way down to the garden room where I make the bouquets. Miscanthus grass, bulrush leaves, crocosmia, you name it.
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And did you spot my little helper? (Actually she doesn’t help. She drinks from the water vases and tends to knock things over.)
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Here she is doing her best trip hazard trick.
But I love it.
These achillea coarcta (I wonder if that is how you spell it, hang on a mo…) coarctata have such a vivid yellow, but are fading fast in the incredible heat.
So I am trying to see if they will dry and keep that colour.
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Promise to report back.
23rd July 2021 @ 11:32 pm
Oh Lindy. Your magic green thumbs and hard work have once again produced these stunning abundant beauties. I love your assistant and you look wonderful too.
What a contrast to our dreary winter current conditions. Enjoy it while it lasts. I am still trying to get outside to plant masses of things I have waiting to go in for spring.
Thanks for brightening my day. xxx
24th July 2021 @ 6:11 am
Ah, you are welcome Marg! It’s always dreadful when a strict lockdown coincides with a cold winter. And especially when you can’t travel south to Melbourne. I’m glad I was able to brighten your day. xxx