If only all weeds were poppies

Thanks again to Mike & Julia for sending us some photographs today, the first (above) is a wonderful poppy in situ and the second (below) a self-seeded one in the pavement that they are going to leave to flower which sounds like a good idea. It looks as Mike says “It’s going to be a corker!” Love the photo intruder in the top left corner by the way. Too good to leave out.

It’s the same here with self-seeded poppies (AKA volunteers). We know the definition of a weed is just a plant that’s in the wrong or unwanted place but we don’t think poppies could ever be called weeds as they are too great a plant!

Above are some self seeded poppies in the kale/pea lane in our veg patch at the bottom of the garden that we can’t bring ourselves to pull out. As we’re in the veg patch, here’s a picture below of our results of our beetroot sowing this year, there’s hardly any!

Have a good gardening Sunday everyone!

Strings on shortwave

Wonderful stuff found this week while doing a shortwave mix from Céline Dessberg with a track called Сэлэнгэ “Selenge”. For a second the start makes you think of PIL’s Flowers of Romance and it’s even got a bit of the Get Carter’s about it.

As it says on her Bandcamp: “Selenge is an enchanting instrumental in which Céline’s Yatga (traditional Mongolian harp) takes the spotlight, weaving haunting melodies over a foundation of groovy soul instrumentation” and they’re not wrong!