9 August 2022

Flowers

9 August 2022 09:35 am
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
The descendants of the pink Swan River daisies are now in flower, and every single plant is most definitely pink! Read more... )

The nasturtiums that I planted in the trough have finally put out a few flowers, a long way behind the others; it's clearly true, as the seed packet says, that if fed or given access to fertilised soil they will put all their energies into growing large instead of flowering! They are of course yet another orange flower, but at least some of them seem to have come out deep red or paler yellow in contrast to the calendulas and marigolds.

The Demon Red chillies are not only flowering profusely now, so far as I can tell every single one of those little flowers is setting -- and after a week the first fruits are now 3/4" long. So it's just a race against time to see if they can develop fast enough before the autumn comes.

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