Yeah, so I don’t do flowers. Until this year I’d never really seen the point, but then we all painted the outhouse walls and the patio became a far nicer place to spend more time. Hence the flowers.

So I invested in some colourful blooms for a hanging basket by the front door and troughs on the patio. And, you know what, they’re really rather nice. They’re flourishing, too.

Previously the only flowers I would have considered growing would have been sunflowers, so that we could give the seeds to the chickens, or marigolds, so that we could put them down around the tomatoes to scare off the aphids. We’re doing the marigolds again this year, but resting the sunflowers for a season.

The patio looks great, though, and although they have no real use I’ll certainly do flowers again next year.

Flowers

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