Month in Pictures – September 08
It was a bit of a struggle to find enough for photos for Septembers month in pictures. What a wash out it’s been. I’ve hardly made it to the plot at all this month.
I’ve started saving a few seeds and amazingly some of them have even dried out enough for storing. In the specimen jars I have poppy, blue mist, foxglove and sweet peas. The first two self seeded everywhere and almost all plot holders would call these weeds but I love them and can’t bring myself to yank them up when they blossom in the middle of my semi-pristine rows.
It’ll look like Flanders next year.
I like to see poppies on the allotment and they don’t take up much space, unlike borage – which I like, but which grows here into a sprawling monster flattening everything around it.
I think semi pristine is the standard to aim for
We have self seeded poppies in common. I love them perhaps more than the plants I buy. I feel the same about the sunflowers as well.