Library members are arriving today so I went to the first floor to open the shutters and air and heat the rooms there. The profumatissimo calicanthus is beginning to fade now as February presses on, but the scented sea of brilliant yellow that is the mimosa from above is delicious. It has taken over most of the upper garden main bed; nothing else apart from the calicanthus, can grow there now. I wanted to take it out and replant it up the hill, but seeing it,no, experiencing it, in all its glory on a globally-warmed February day, I hesitate. It makes a lot of shade and is messy later in the year. Still, if it's this warm now ( early Jun-ish to give an idea) perhaps a shade-giving anything should be left ?
It does drop bits into the dinner later in the year.
2 comments:
wow that's warm. the snow only melted here yesterday.
just in time for the pigeon proofing man to come and put tension spring wire along the little back parapet of upstairs. hooray.
now the pigeons fly towards it, look surprised hover and turn around to sit affronted on the UCU building opposite. hah.
And apparently it will still work if we train honeysuckle along the wire (see there was a gardening point to the post).
Lenna, jasmine too would be good.
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