In Waiting

[callmemadam]

Plants waiting in the greenhouse before going outside. The pictures all look better if you click on them.







For my gothic basket, this velvety black petunia:



Last year I was boasting about rescuing a sad plant from the sale trolley and turning it into two good plants. Here’s the result: Aquilegia ‘Black Barlow’. It’s even darker than it looks in the photo.



I went to the market this morning and managed not to buy any more plants. Now for some more weeding in the sun. There's been hardly a drop of rain here for two months.

Comments

[land-girl.livejournal.com]

I like black flowers too :-)

Lovely pictures.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I think they need to be set off by something. I like a very dark foliage plant with something orange in front, for example. For my gothic basket I picked the two dark plants then went round trying other plants against them. Went for a sort of violet in the end.
Ooh, my back, after that weeding!

[gghost.livejournal.com]

Such lovely things to look forward to.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

All I need is rain. Still waiting :-(

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

Oooh, fab flowers. That aquilegia's really nice.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It needs a drink, though, like everything else.
My dark pelargoniums will be flowering soon, goody.

[(Anonymous)]

I do like that black petunia. Never seen them before - much nicer that my pot of petunias which are that eye-watering bright pink. Nicola@vintagereads

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Isn't it gorgeous? I saw it first in Sarah Raven's catalogue and then was lucky enough to get one at the garden centre.