365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, August 9, 2018
The Colour Garden
Day 300: Perhaps they aren't as unstructured as a traditional English garden, but my flowerbeds are nevertheless a themeless riot of hues and growth habits. I grow "for pretty," with no particular mind to borders and backgrounds, not objecting to those things which reseed with wanton abandon, totally happy when a solitary yellow snapdragon pops up amid the cosmos or nasturtiums creep out on the far side of the hellebore. This is my "colour garden," the morning-sun bed which often may sprout the occasional sunflower, courtesy of the careless eaters in the bird feeders nearby. I love the little surprises each growing season brings: Nigella over here, a Gazania which survived the winter, a pop of blue Lobelia from a seed a decade dormant. Nature knows no truly straight lines, and neither should a garden be anything other than a crazy-quilt in my conception, its floral patchwork calling to memory the dearest fabrics of bygone years.
Labels:
colour garden,
Cosmos,
flower bed,
gardening
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