Here’s a second bunch of flowers from a Dorset garden in June. Those few who kindly sniffed the first bunch may have wondered why none was labelled. That’s because, for most of them (apart from the obvious ones) I have no idea of the names. Or did once, but have forgotten them. And for familiar ones, I feel putting “Pink Rose” isn’t much help if you really want to know if it’s a Rosaflora Grandiloquens “Dame Edna Everage” or not. If I name 2 or 3 but not the rest, it still looks a bit… wrong. So it’s just ‘flars’, as Eliza Doolittle might say.
Lovely, does Astrantia and Leycesteria formosa (Himalayan nutmeg) sound familiar?
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Great, thanks Amelia. 1, yes, Mrs RH planted those – oh look, there it is on wiki! 2, no – we’ve always wondered about that. (I can manage the irises and wild roses).
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