In the meadow…..last year this plant appeared – we think it’s a hybrid of a pink hardy Geranium and a blue hardy Geranium, as we have both in the flower beds. I hoped it would come through the winter and come up again – it has – and it’s flowering!
I’m pleased.
Other pleasing flowers….Hot eyed Mafia Queen Big Poppy
‘Big Poppy’
Hot-eyed Mafia Queen!
At the trim garden’s edge
She sways towards August.
A Bumble Bee
Clambers into her drunken, fractured goblet –
Up the royal carpet of down-hung,
Shrivel-edged, unhinged petal, her first-about-to-fall.
He’s in there as she sways. He utters thin
Sizzling bleats of difficult enjoyment.
Her carnival paper skirts, luminous near-orange,
Embrace him helplessly.
Already her dark pod is cooking its drug.
Every breath imperils her. Her crucible
Is falling apart with its own fierceness.
A fly, cool, rests on the flame-fringe.
Soon she’ll throw off her skirts
Withering into vestal afterlife,
Bleeding inwardly
Her maternal nectars into her own
Coffin – (cradle of her offspring).
Then we shall say:
She wore herself in her hair, in her day,
And we could see nothing but her huge flop of petal,
Her big, lewd, bold eye, in its sooty lashes,
And that stripped, athletic leg, hairy
In a fling of abandon – ‘
by Ted Hughes
Giant Cultivated Thistley Thing….(aka Cirsium)
A humungous Clover head….Bee’s Delight
