It’s just turned up in the garden

There’s a tall old plant at the back of the bed that seems to have shot out of nowhere. We did a Plant.id on it and it turns out to be Fullers Teasel. It’s a plant that initially stuck out to us on a walk on the wildside (the river path from Sydenham to Catford) but not so sure we want it in that part of the garden.

We’ve just read up on it and it says it not that good for the plant to move it about, as it has a bit of a large taproot so perhaps we’ll leave it be. It’s good for the birds and bees anyway and the flower don’t look that bad. We are sure we either bought a plant last year or took some seed heads off a plant. Who knows, we just have to check on it that it don’t take over the garden.

More sinks of the Belfast variety

Thanks to Gerry Hectic for sending us a picture of his first flowering lily in his pond complete with Belfast sink in the corner filled with some water plants. Lovely flower and that water looks a lot clearer that our pond at the present moment too Gerry!