More Weeds...

...that I think deserve a place in a garden, cultivated or not.

The Field Gladiolus is one of these. I used to have drifts of them all over The Bottom, but this year, the majority are on the edges, tucked under bushes and sprouting from underneath edging stones where the strimmer blade has missed them. (If you are wondering why the second photo is so murky, it's because the first one was taken in the afternoon sun yesterday, and the other one before the sun was high this morning.) If the leaves are removed too soon, like most bulbs and corms, they don't produce much in the way of flower the following year, but luckily, these seed themselves and I hope will soon be back up to strength. There are a number of different species, according to Innes, with a variation in height and the amount of white on the petals.



The Cistus bushes have taken a battering. There are tiny ones sprouting again in odd places, but there are only two left of any size, and one of those is in a border on The Top. I think of them as Poached Eggs, but their official name is CISTUS salvifolius.



My third plant for this post is Cerinthe or Honeywort. I'm cheating here, because I haven't found any in The Bottom this year, but the seeds have spread themselves up the first bancale, and are flowering there, so will soon spread themselves around again, given a chance.