'There are no real rules in the garden. Mistakes are made and knowledge often comes through trial and error,' Pam_Frampton writes of her garden. 🌹 'In this space, there are no pressures, no deadlines, no hierarchies, no titles.' SaltWire
Roses after the rain. — Pam Frampton/SaltWire NetworkWhile the robin sings over againThe garden is in its glory now, decked out in all its finery.
It is rain that is badly needed after an unusually hot dry spell, a run of weather that has sucked all moisture out of the soil, leaving it dry and crumbly, the whole yard like a potted plant that has been left too long on a windowsill. Listen carefully and you imagine you can hear the plants exhaling pale green sighs of relief.
The forsythia — which always produces the first dazzling burst of flowers in the spring — has long since shed its yellow petals and morphed into an innocuous-looking green shrub, giving no hint of its true flamboyant nature. The monkshood has yet to show its turbaned blue flowers, its charming appearance masking its murderous nature. It is a highly toxic plant that can be fatal if ingested by dogs and humans, which might explain its many aliases: aconite, wolf’s-bane, leopard’s bane, mousebane, women’s bane, devil’s helmet, blue rocket, queen of poisons.
We nurture them all, spending hours bent to the task of getting rid of unwanted visitors: goutweed, broad-leaf plantain, dandelion, bindweed, creeping buttercup — plants that sound like key ingredients in some nasty Harry Potter potion. In this space, there are no pressures, no deadlines, no hierarchies, no titles. You can work at your own rhythm, pausing to appreciate the moments when the traffic noise is eclipsed by birdsong.
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