Ta-Dah !! It's hot and sunny and we're sitting on a cafe terrace in teeshirts! It won't last, of course, it's much too early but everybody looks livelier . Perhaps they're just astonished?
But now, I'm almost tempted to go out onto the balcony and dust down a chair. Or go past the garden center and buy a plant or two ... something sturdy, though.
No tomatoes yet. Perhaps my new waif and stray, which I found last November blowing about the car park; two leaves on a tatty bit of stem that I brought home and stuck in a jam jar of water to see what would happen. It gamely grew roots, got stuck in a flower pot and here she is
A geranium, one of those dangly ones ( I only have a sketchy knowledge of the true gardener's vocabulary, I'm afraid ), she looks remarkably like a large , rather bullying, deep pink one that lived in a tub round the corner till it disappeared in November. Said tub is now filled with genteel mauve things, instead. Perhaps I could take a couple of leaves from my new plant over one night and re-introduce it discreetly? No, maybe not; I'm not really cut out to be an urban guerrilla. I'll just re-pot her and stick her on the balcony and let her achieve world domination on her own, leaf by leaf.
I don't think she'd be too happy with this photo. Once I've re-potted her, I'll have to show her in her feisty glory ... probably just before she grows next door.
7 comments:
I've never seen such a gangly, dangly geranium before. I must lead a sheltered life.
She's gone wild! Hang her over the balcony, and by summer she will have gone round the corner and taken back The Tub! True spirit, there.
She's trying to escape!!
Thank you for your comment on my blog. I have enjoyed reading yours. You obviously like things with a mind of their own rather than those which stay where they are put once you put a stake in the soil - I am with you there.
Actually it sounds like you are a natural with homeless plants. Keep up the good work.
You must have green fingers, since both have grown. My efforts to rescue stray and ailing plants don't usually end well.
Dangly one is a perfect description.
We missed 'summer' as we were on holiday at the time. And now, though the sun is shining the wind is evil. Or a bully like your geranium.
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