Happy Gardener

Sue had started getting anxious that it was time for the pansies to arrive in the shops.  She checked on the blog to see when she'd gone shopping in previous years and we've been going to stores just in case!  So, to great relief, this Saturday they appeared at Carrefour in Cahors.

As you can see it wasn't a random selection, but the result of carefully turfing out the wrong colours from the trays and replacing them with toning colours.  So we have pansies all in the blue spectrum.

I had had a packet of wallflower seeds for about 3 years and was fed up with looking at them so I threw them in the veg patch in June. They grew miraculously, however I now realise, too well. Presumably the manure in the veg patch was too much to their liking and I ended up with loads of leaves which fell over and grew along the ground. However waste not want not, we have spent the last three days planting them in the long bed. The operative word being "we". John virtually pick axing our concrete ground and me laying  the wallflowers in trenches and replacing the solid clods. It could not be described as "planting". Never mind they will be winter fodder for the deer!!