Pinks

I've had a big weekend. Once upon a time that meant too much stolly and bolly and a hangover to match. Now it means hours of crouching in the dirt planting seedlings, pulling out weeds and creating eons of bad karma by squishing aphids on rosebuds.

Parsley for tabbouli and salsa. Theoretically. Probably I will just look at it and pick a spring or two to chuck on top of veges when I remember. 

These pansies have been thriving for months. Something is eating lots of them and I deadhead them regularly and either of those things is promoting lots of new flowers. 

Pinks

I bought some dianthus chinensis x barbatus seedlings called 'Devotion'.  Also known as sweet william, pinks, gillyflower, cottage pink, carnation and clove pinks, Shakespeare called them "nature's bastards" in A Winter's Tale, perhaps because of the ease with which they hybridise. A friend once told me the purest white in nature is a white carnation. I'm not sure if that's true but it's a nice idea. 

I sowed some more cosmos, this time pink, red and white ones from Fothergills called 'Sensation Mixed'. 

http://mrfothergills-seeds-bulbs.com.au/Cosmos-Sensation-Mixed.html

Calla Lilies or Zantedeschia aethiopica are a new bulb for our garden. They are native to east Africa and their natural habitat is river banks and damp areas, so we'll see. Will have to try and keep them damp so they at least have a chance. Anyway, I planted one bulb called 'Romeo', which will be pink in the front garden and a yellow one called 'Florex Gold', which sounds like a dangerous chemical, in the back garden. 

Calla lily bulb

http://www.gardenexpress.com.au/calla-lily-romeo/