Thistles aren't the only fast growers in my garden at present. The Flanders poppies are also taking off after a slowish start. You might just be able to see the first bud peeking out in this photo.
While the poppies may be doing what they usually do in other areas of the garden it's been an odd year in many ways with a lot of the winter bulbs yet to flower when they should already be in full bloom. There's still no sign of flowers from the paper white jonquils which I'd expect to be the first to appear and even the common jonquils in the front yard have only started to flower in the last week instead of in mid June.
Then there are the totally confused roses like those in this pot. I'd normally be giving them a winter pruning by mid July but as you can see, although they're looking a little bedraggled having just had a soaking rain shower, they're still flowering and the perfume is glorious.
Why this is happening I have no idea. All I can put it down to is the general madness that is 2020.
2 comments:
We too have had some rain recently, much needed and much welcomed, but there is a strange perversity about it all, that the weeds benefit twice as much as everything else and their resultant growth is exponentially greater. Must be some strange and immutable law of nature.
Yes, David, weeds do overwhelm the garden very fast and as this is our rainy season they're growing like crazy. They have the ability to flourish even when my tenderly cared for plants are sitting there doing nothing despite fertiliser and protection from the worst of the weather. I have some pak choy seedlings which came up a couple of weeks ago and still are only showing their first seed leaves.
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