Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 July 2011

Viva la wild flower

I must have spent around £50 all in on eBay over the winter amassing exotic and not so exotic seeds.  Right enough we had some really bad storms around March - April which put paid to a lot of my purchases.  Some did survive though and turned into nothing really special.

Then I buy a box of wild flower seeds from Poundland for £1 and the trough I put them in is bathing part of my 'roof' garden in chaotic colour.  People are total snobs when it comes to weeds and wild flowers I think.  If something looks and smells nice and it lasts a decent amount of time, it works for me.

I have just sown an equivalent poundland box of 'aromatics' and am very excited to see what I get.  Next year, I am going to forgo the messing about with fancy seeds which need all manner of pampering and cajoling to do something but actually do nothing and make me hate gardening.  I am going to buy a tonne of compost and chuck it over the roof.  Then I am going to buy 40 boxes of wild flower seeds from Poundland and have a ceremonial flounce, toss and rakeathon.

Sorry but I think these look lovely - £1 for all this




 I suspect this one is not from Poundland but I can't remember