Titanarum

Bulbs, what are they like? Wonderful. My freesias are going like the clappers. Yes, I planted them three months early. Yes, they are placed on a south facing windowsill with a radiator below. Yes, they are reaching for the sky growing taller by the minute. But who wants stocky freesias? Isn’t slim, fragile elegance what freesias should be about. And scent, of course. I am yet to find out about the truthfulness of the product description. It did say ‘intensely fragrant’ and being a trusting soul I believe what I read. The written word has authority, in my book. So to speak. It is easy to rubbish writers as Wikipedia addicted, cut and paste merchants. But I don’t go along with that. Writing is a noble profession, and copy writers are no exception. And as for the explosion of text and images thanks to internet and cable tv, doesn’t that just show how far we have come? Billions more can read and write now. Let’s think back to the time when scribes had to copy each word on a piece of vellum, just before Gutenberg’s wonderful invention of moving type in 1455, and count our blessings. Anyway, back to the bulbs. My freesias will not disappoint. And if they do they’ll share the fate of that horrid hyacinth on which I wasted so much energy. (See picture).