Sowing the seeds of bloom

I played what felt like a meant trick on Silver. As I was going to bed, she went for another nibble – and I closed the door on her. I didn’t know what else to do, I don’t have a litter box, I can’t leave the door open – and she’s not my cat. She supposedly belongs to the people who hang their laundry out in the rain. Come to think of it, she only started showing up here after we walked past there, when we were looking for my neighbour’s cat. Anyway, I felt really bad locking her out like that – and my guilty conscience played some technicolour nightmares for me. Until just after three, when I heard her meowing outside, so I got up and let her in. She was a bit wet, and I felt bad. She came on the bed, cuddled a bit and then went off again. Then I heard plastic rustling: Would you believe she just meowed because she wanted the food bowl filled? That was the end of my guilt trip!

As soon as the sun was out, I was in the garden. My neighbour came and joined me – she’s busy crocheting a rainbow blanket. It looks quite lovely! I tackled the bit alongside the house and finished it off by putting up the last piece of fence. I think I’ll get some more of these, they look quite cottage-garden.

Silver photo-bombing

And I put a live Iris next to the mowed down one, in the hope it’ll be motivated to try again.

I extended the border alongside the mowed down patch, and sowed some more seeds: Gazania, Marigold and some Dianthus.

Silver photo-bombing again!

I also sowed some more radish seeds in the vegetable patch, and added some more flower seeds to the flower bed: Calendula, Lobelia and some of the Dianthus.

There are some head-scratchers in my garden, too: Take for example the Vieruurtjies (four o’clock flower / Mirabilis jalapa). They’re called four o’clock flowers because they bloom at four in the afternoon. They’re closed the rest of the day. And then a seed found its way into my patch, grew and flowered. Except it flowered only around nine in the morning! So the only time I got to see it in bloom would be on weekends! Also, they don’t seem to like it in flowerbeds. I tried, but they just don’t do well in there.

Until a seed decided to find its way all the way up the stairs into a flowerpot that stood there – now look how that is doing in the pot:

And then there is this Carnation. Just growing right where only weeds manage to get a grip. Can’t even put the support nearby, because it’s just a layer of sand on cement.

Well, the Nasturtiums seem to either be crossbreeding or confused – this one couldn’t decide whether it would be yellow or orange!