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igenlodeThe first Christmas concert of the year took place on December 1st and out of doors... in the rain, unfortunately! We were reasonably sheltered (violins: not waterproof), the music, being closer to the edge of the canopy, got a bit wet from rain blowing in, and the poor young conductor who was stuck out in front had to put his hood up ;-) Amazingly, people did actually stand around under umbrellas and listen.
The mystery pink Linaria is still flowering despite a couple of hard frosts; it appears to have got to the stage of becoming part of the local 'seed bank' in the soil, since I'm pretty sure I didn't plant it in all those places. Which is just as well, because the seed is tiny and hard to collect, and the flowers are pretty and evidently thrive in the somewhat specialised local conditions! It is definitely bigger and more colourful than the native toadflax.
I have been given a packet of dwarf pea seed and have planted some indoors to see if I can get some over-winter peashoots off it (and to see if it is viable). Homegrown peas do tend to be a waste of time, as you get a pathetically small crop for a lot of effort...
Everything else has died back, even the second-generation marigolds and at least one of the kale plants. Except, unexpectedly, for the yellow mesembryanthemums, which are definitely not supposed to be frost-hardy! The seed-pods on those might just ripen, but of course they are currently very soggy indeed...
The mystery pink Linaria is still flowering despite a couple of hard frosts; it appears to have got to the stage of becoming part of the local 'seed bank' in the soil, since I'm pretty sure I didn't plant it in all those places. Which is just as well, because the seed is tiny and hard to collect, and the flowers are pretty and evidently thrive in the somewhat specialised local conditions! It is definitely bigger and more colourful than the native toadflax.
I have been given a packet of dwarf pea seed and have planted some indoors to see if I can get some over-winter peashoots off it (and to see if it is viable). Homegrown peas do tend to be a waste of time, as you get a pathetically small crop for a lot of effort...
Everything else has died back, even the second-generation marigolds and at least one of the kale plants. Except, unexpectedly, for the yellow mesembryanthemums, which are definitely not supposed to be frost-hardy! The seed-pods on those might just ripen, but of course they are currently very soggy indeed...