By Bernie Bell

Nature surprises me, again and again.  We’ve had this clump of House Leeks in this trough for 13 years, and it’s only ever flowered once, a few years ago.  This year, it put up a magnificent ‘spike’, and flower-head…

We have another House Leek growing on the wall at the back of the house, which has been there for about 8 years, and has never done anything – it’s stayed alive, but, that’s about it. Then, this year, it suddenly put up a spike, too……

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We’ve had a few ribald comments about it!  Caption competition, anyone?