Potager flowers
It has been a great start for the sunflowers in the potager this year. I tried to plant them in the central sections around the climbing French bean poles. But inevitably there are some that come up wherever they choose.
And in the spirit of a French vegetable garden I leave them be. One of the sunflowers in the broad bean bed is over eight feet high. Luckily it’s one of my favourite rust coloured ones. Autumn beauty perhaps. So I shall cut it hard when I pick the first lead flower and get plenty of branching blooms after that.
This one is monstrous. And in the right place. Right in among the salad and chards. A keeper.
It’s hard to photograph them well; but here is a playful little grouping.
My hedge of sunflowers to the far left of the potager is coming along too. But they are a bit slower to flower as I only planted them last month. But I hope to have a nice tall flowering hedge in no time. It makes a lovely contrast to the granite wall. And who knows, it might even deter deer.
Sarah
10th July 2012 @ 7:23 pm
Is there anything happier than sunflowers? And they are good for the bee population right?