Last year I had mixed successes with my “live and let live” philosophy, letting plants grow that I did not recognise to see if they would produce pretty flowers. This year I have learnt from some of my mistakes (no more deadly nightshade), but luckily some new plants have sprung a surprise.
I moved a tiny fern-like plant that I found at the boundary of our garden to a more prominent place: you never know! To my surprise after our holiday bright blue spikes of flowers appeared, outperforming my expectations and definitely not belonging to a fern. Google assisted in giving this freebee a name: Jacob’s ladder. A perennial which is likely to self-seed and spread further throughout the garden.
Right next to the Jacob’s ladder I filled a gap with a little blue violet. Or so I thought, because covered in pollen by its neighbour proudly stands a little blue lobelia. I love it that the garden keeps amazing me.
Also I might have accidentally introduced a “weed” of my own to our garden. Nasturtiums love our sandy, poor soil and are popping up everywhere, even in the garden path. They are so prolific that I don’t think this garden will ever get rid of them and they will keep brightening up the garden for several years to come.
Green Tomatoes 