netto's Journal

The yellow pansy (or viola? what’s the difference?) stopped flowering altogether when I moved. Now it’s clearly much happier.
I love the little white moustaches. In time for Movember?!

My little round green friends are becoming swollen red friends – full of juicy, sugary, salty, tomatoey goodness! Unfortunately the little green tomato didn’t make the move, but these guys came from flowers borne not long after. 1st generation local tomatoes, one might say.

One strawberry plant is, I think, trying to tell me it’s unhappy in its pot. It hasn’t produced fruit or even flowers. But it has just started to grow the fastest moving runner I have ever seen. I think it’s growing at about an inch a day. I wonder if I should leave it on and give it a chance to grow baby strawberry plants free from the confines of the pot. On the other hand I have also read that runners should be removed to improve the strawberry crop (which, let’s face it, is a dismal 0 for this plant). For now, my indecision means the runner stays attached, but not yet lying over bare soil.

These flowers have a very subtle fragrance, in contrast to the banks of chinese jasmine that are growing around the street. It’s sweet, but so mild I can’t put a name to a similar fragrance.

This little marguerite has put on a bright and brave show, coming through some extraordinary weather this year, and a house move too. Now it’s starting to slow, probably in preparation for a rest over the hot summer (makes sense if you consider that marguerites originate from the Canary Islands).

I thought I had just three plants: deep red, light yellow and white with pink fringe. Unless the yellow flowering plant has suddenly decided to change bloom colour, I now discover I have a bright red flowering plant too!