Monthly Archives: June 2010

A much better shot of our larkspur’s flowers. If you’ve just arrived, I don’t want to boast, but the plant measures a whopping four foot ten — or almost as tall as Shana

We have measured our larkspur and found it to be 4’10″. For those in the euro-metric zone, that’s loads and loads and loads of fiddly millimetres. Click on the pic below to see it (almost) life size.

The answer to our mystery flower puzzle was, of course, a poppy. When I say ‘of course’, what I really mean is ‘oh, of course!’ (note pertinent use of italics and exclamation mark), the subtext being (what else?) something along … Continue reading →

Our experiment in growing wild flowers has been nothing if not educational. The more we learn, the more we realise we have still to learn; this giant fooled us (not always a difficult task, that) into thinking, for a while … Continue reading →