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| Primula Candelabra- A Thriving Gift |
The friend who gave me this Primula has not had the same show with hers as this one gave last year, in its second year with me. It sprouted three vigorously flowering candelabra and attempted a fourth. Another bunch of leaves just like this one has appeared this year. It would be lovely if it becomes a successful relative and companion. I have recently planted other types of Primulas in the same patch. I would love to see a natural spread of Primulas. I want them to be a part of the perennial natural garden corner I am trying to create with a variety of seasonal flowerings plants.
Some ecological (eco) flower seed packs I have purchased in the past, have provided what I would call weeds, a constant in
gardening, which, I for one, would like to reduce upon. I know some plants generally described as weeds are
to others, 'interesting'. One good
thing that came out of an eco [with weeds] seed packet, was lots of lovely growth of flat parsley which,
for me, would be a kitchen herb not a flower. The parsley peered out of the ground and stopped still over winter. The parsley has put some energy into growing in the last month or so, giving me an opportunity to use a little in my culinary preparations already, together with just a smidgin of garlic chives, (it hasn't 'bushed up' yet, so I daren't take too much) and few young peppermint leaves.
Moral of tale: read eco seed packet carefully if you do not want to re-seed your garden plot with weeds.
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| Chard An Elegant Vegetable Leaf - Grown In 2011 |
Last year, I also planted really old Cornflower seeds from the remainder of a packet I had in a drawer; to my surprise they eventually produced a lovely little show, though, not for long as with late flowering, late Autumn, which can be very chilly here, and in the words of Eliza Doolittle, (My Fair Lady) Autumn is, "as what did 'em in"!
My Borage plant, a gift -a dreadfully ugly thing when fully grown - produced fabulous bright blue, little
star shaped flowers, which were lovely in salads. They can be crystallised for
food decoration and eaten that way, if anyone fancies doing it.
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| The Plants Just Before They Got Hugely Out Of Hand. Young Borage At Centre. 2013 |
The two Lovage plants I bought are not much prettier than the Borage, I mentioned. Their abundant leaf growth is a dominant feature and the leaves are what you use for flavouring home-made soup. Someone described the smell as certain well-advertised internationally known vegetable stock cube ingredient. I bow to their superior Knorr-ledge. I can't vouch if it's the actual taste. I can say Lovage leaves work okay to give a soup that extra ooomph.
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