Things for which I give thanks this week…
1.- The slow-growing Allium flower has now reached it’s final size and fully coloured up…
2.- Talking of slow-growing plants that require patience – we have had this Yucca? for at least 15 years and this is the first time it has flowered – clearly worth waiting for…
When is a weed not a weed?
3.- We live on a backstreet and a bloke from the council comes around with a weed killer spray at least once a year, but this is not really enough to keep the weeds at bay and perhaps also, with this year’s weather, the weeds have flourished but some of them are too pretty to be considered weeds and so the answer to the riddle is “When they are garden escapes!”
4.- This weed may have struck terror into the hearts of those of you who garden, even in a photograph, or brought on apoplexy, and you may feel that it is inappropriate to allow it anywhere near a gratitude, but i have a sneaking admiration for Equisetum, or Mare’s Tail since in the Carboniferous period, it grew to the size and form of rainforest trees and composes much of the coal that formed then…
5.- This plant is growing in a garden, indeed has been deliberately planted by a neighbour, but it grows wild – hence a weed and so is the opposite of a garden escape lol…
6.- Grateful for Municipal plantings…
7.- This butterfly was, I’m sure, grateful for this (weed) Thistle, of some kind…
8.- I awoke to the rising sun reflecting in a tiny beam from the neighbouring houses and striking the net curtains in my bedroom, which have a rather nice pattern of birds, leaves and bird-cages and the sunlight has melded the curtains with the garden plants seen beyond…
9.- My grandson and his girlfriend have just moved into their own flat in London, he is a Doctor and she is P.A. to Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) so they have been able to afford somewhere in London which is quite a feat in this day and age. They have long desired a large painting of mine of a box of fish in a shop doorway in Naxos and so I have given it to them as a house-warming present. it leaves a large hole in the painting array in my bedroom but I’m sure I will fill it… I used to paint so infrequently (still do really) that I hung onto paintings as if to remind me that I still could, but I am learning to let go now…
10.- The Poetry Postcard Festival has begun and somehow, I hav been put on TWO lists and I can hardly withdraw from one so I now have 62 cards and poems to send before the end of August. Good job I have picked a simpler theme of printed cards this year…
Have a great week y’all – hope it is neither too hot, too wet or too windy where you are…
You have a wonderful array of flowering plants. Beautiful view of the sunlight through the curtain.
Thanks, Frank, a weed by any other name…
#4 great for scouring pots and pans if you don’t want to use steel wool.
I believe they are full of silica… Thanks for that tip, Marilyn…
Great collection of intentional plants, random garden escapes and weeds. Your Cyanotype print shows many features in the landscape.
Fish is a symbol of good properties and is a good choice for interior decoration.
Nice collection of photos.
Have a good week.
Thanks, Cai, I haven’t seen a photo of where they have hung the fish yet… I worked from a photo I took in Naxos and Barbara was calling to me to hurry up and who would want to look at a box of fish anyway…
You have a good week too.
Mullein
hey! we used to have them show up in the meadow, but haven’t seen them in a couple of years (funny about plants… lots then they move on)
have the best of weeks*
*they’re saying we can expect a heat wave(ette) mid week so, a heads up for your weather weekend/early next week?
We have a heatwave at present but we also have some win today which is cooling it a bit.
Yes – we have a tall thin purple weed I don’t recall seeing before, but it’s everywhere – pretty enough though…
I think that weeds are weeds if they are unwanted but for some reason I always found the gardens that look a bit messier and have the escapees prettier.
Lavender is beautiful on photos, unfortunately it causes me allergic reaction if it’s close to me…
Poetry postcards? Seems like a lot of work but also fun 😊.
Enjoyed reading your list, take care!
i had to laugh at some of your photos… being a gardener a lot of weeds are herbs my dear friend cherishes and told me not to pick them or pick them a give to her… she is teaching me a lot… loved your fish painting and the story that was attached to it… have a great thankful week
Thanks, Miss Pie, I dabbled in Natural remedies briefly – so yes, Feverfew and all sorts of other useful “weeds”…
You have a great week too!