Titanarum

Wall flowers have a lovely scent. Not always pretty to look at but then you can’t have everything all of the time. Some cultivars tick both boxes though. I prefer the slightly variegated pale purple, pale pink and pale yellow ones. I sowed a pack of multicoloured wall flowers a few years back in the hope that I would be able to pick the colours I liked and discard the others. But something went wrong along the way. Or the colours didn’t stay true. What I expected to be a bluish red turned my pet hate colour: rusty orange. I picked them the other day but have hid them in a dark corner in the living room so that the scent is all I notice. The disappointment is bearable but I shall not sow packs of multi coloured flowers again. The winds raging this Easter have deterred me from doing my bit for the plot. I will sort the place out in clement weather, thank you very much. And I’d advise everybody else to do the same, were I in the habit of advising. But I’m not. Due to chronic inconsistency and irrational, mood dependent behaviour I fly in the face of role modelling.

The propagator is on the sill. Empty toilet rolls have been cut in half and filled with compost and seeds (sweet corn). Other seeds are ready to take their place once germination has been established and the seedlings have been transferred to K’s greenhouse. I’m planting coffee seeds next, I expect. The ones I got on Ebay before xmas. I’ve also managed to squeeze into the propagator two pots of hypodronically grown herbs. One is mint the other parsley. Both have been shorn to give flavour to a couscous dish I made the other day. I am hoping they will yield another crop for another dish. I’ve tried both these herbs before and found mint to be no problem whereas the parsley, being so tightly packed, can disappoint unless I thin them dramatically. And I didn’t bother doing that on the day I cut them down. Two traumas won’t make a recovery, I fear. I may just put it in the compost bag. Talking of which. I have to take it down to the compost bin very soon. I.e. today. It is beginning to pong a little. But that, I guess, is all part and parcel of caring for the environment.