Around the garden
May 10th, 2009 by Chris
Time for an update on the rest of the garden…
The mini-meadow is still not a blaze of beautiful wild flowers, but it’s a lot better than it was last year. There’s clearly a lot of different species of something in there—it’s just that it’s mostly leaves at the moment, so I’ve no idea what they are. Not that I’m much better at identifying things when their in flower. We’ve had some campion, and now have a small purple geranium like thing (herb robert?).
There’s a fair bit of yellow rattle (I think) about to come into flower, which, since it parasitises grass should help keep the grass under control and let the flowers through in future.
Our pond is looking rather sad. More of a muddy hole than a pond really. It’s just so long since it rained. We are hotly debating whether or not the last bits of water remaining in our 1000 litre rain tank should be used to top it up. There was some promising looking rain forecast for Tuesday / Wednesday earlier today, but the forecasters seem to have changed their minds again, so there doesn’t seem to be any reprieve in sight.
Sophie planted out sunflowers and sweet peas yesterday. I’m planning on extending the automatic irrigation system to include my attempt to grow grapes in the front garden, although with our storage tank almost empty it’s a bit academic really. Please let it rain soon!