Photos From My Garden
“In my world today: the sun is shining, agapanthas flowering, cicadas chorusing–feel like I’ve woken up reincarnated as Pollyanna.” 😉
It’s not quite so warm this morning after a night of rain, but it is clear and promises to fine up even more later — & I thought what better for the blog today than a photo of those agapanthas. I have blue ones as well but I always think these white ones are extra special.
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And then I thought–why not go all the way? Here’s some blue hydrangeas as well! 🙂
My childhood garden had both these. I adored blue hydrangea (and still do), but always wanted agapanthus to finish flowering so that I can see what happens next.
The agapanthas do have great seed heads! Do you know they are reputed to have been introduced into the UK by Queen Mary II (ie of “Willian & Mary” fame) from the Netherlands, but am not sure if they originated there or otherwhere. This year, possibly because of the liquefaction changes to the soil composition, the hydrangeas came in very pink then slowly shifted into the current mauve-y blue.
Very jealous. My wife and I enjoy our garden much. Though currently it’s under a foot of snow. Sad faces. We’ll enjoy yours for now.
Glad you enjoyed, Steve. That is a lot of snow, but a big snowfall and the garden can be magical, too. ‘Just for you’ I’ll make my Tuesday poem a haiku about the hydrangea & snow — so ‘stay posted.’
I LOVE agapanthas.Lily of the Nile? And the hydrangeas are gorgeous. So lovey that you have sunny garden space. I live in the middle of a postage stamp size rainforest, so my rooftop is were I grow flowers, herbs and veggies, all in pots.
Now going to find the snow garden haiku . . .
I love agapanthas, too, and ‘Lily of the Nile’ is such a pretty name, but I have now done some research and discovered that they hail from South Africa originally and occur naturally, from the Cape to the Limpopo (wonderful name!) river—which fits with them coming in the UK first from the Netherlands (ie William and Mary were Prince and Princess of Orange when invited to rule Britain following the ‘Glorious Revolution’) as they would have come to there from the Cape colony.
The haiku will be posted Tuesday, so watch this space …