Impetuosity when gardening equals failure and dejection. Actually, impetuosity in life often equals failure and dejection. But this is a gardening blog, not a philosophy blog, so I will stick to seedlings. Today I planted out a multitude of Queen Anne's Lace, Nigella and Blue Lace Flower seedlings. Most had developed true leaves, but some still only had their seed leaves, so who knows whether they will survive the trauma of being transplanted. I thought about waiting until they were bigger to give them a better chance and then thought, what the hell.
I also cleared some grass away from the peach and an apple tree, fertilised each of them with a kilo of rose food, watered the fertiliser in and mulched them. The peach did not fruit at all last year, hopefully this year it will, so I can wander out in January, pick random fruit that I have failed to protect with a net and then throw them in the compost, having been half-eaten by birds and inhabited by insects. The forget-me-nots are blooming, as are the azaleas, jasmine, lavendar and daisies.
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| Forget-me-not |
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| Bluebells |
Bluebells always remind me of Lord Denning, who began his judgment in Hinz v Berry [1970] 2 QB 40 with, "It happened on April 19, 1964. It was bluebell time in Kent". I have always been thankful for that segue.
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| http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/bluebells-in-kent-a64581/ |
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