Years ago I lived near another river; between us and the river was a stretch of land that had been used immediately after World War II as a dumping ground for material cleared from bombed out parts of London, particularly the East End. As a result this little stretch of land inadvertently became a haven for plant life other wise lost.
Earlier this year when we thought we might have a summer we started to clear a part of the garden for space to put up a pool. The intention had been to level the ground and either use lawn seed or purchase turf. In the end those few warm days of April were false harbingers, misleading us into false hope and expectation. The dug over gound was left lumpen and has now grown over with a mixture of oddments of grass and various more or less noxious forms of plant life include bind weed, ivy, dandelion, morning glory, nettle, bramble and thistle. This stuff probably was there in the ground anyway and has only flourished having been given a new lease after the soil was turned over by yours truly.
A lot of the stuff remains unidentified. I'm planning to cherish the clump of Love in the Mist that has sprung up by the stump of the old gum tree which we cut down a couple of years ago...

and this too, if only I had some idea of what it is called.
2 comments:
This looks like a snapdragon flower.
nice post :) great ... keep up the good work :)
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