Crotons give such a exotic and nice splash of colour to the garden. Yesterday I planted some cuttings my daughter and her partner brought over. It is a big leaved variety which I didn't have in my garden. I also planted a border of new daylilies. Not yet finished. Today it is raining cats and dogs and they, the weathermen say there is mor to come.
Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. Gerard Manley Hopkins
The first flowering shrub I planted on our land
Every flower is a soul blooming in Nature.-Gerard De Nerval
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself? -Henry David Thoreau
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Crotons give such a exotic and nice splash of colour to the garden. Yesterday I planted some cuttings my daughter and her partner brought over. It is a big leaved variety which I didn't have in my garden. I also planted a border of new daylilies. Not yet finished. Today it is raining cats and dogs and they, the weathermen say there is mor to come.
I'm sure the big-leaved variety will look very attractive. It drizzled here today but the earth is sodden so I'm only pulling out weeds from my pots!
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