Yuzu blossom and fruit bud. Image: Su Leslie 1019
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. — Michael Pollan
Rain and blossom; spring at my place. Image: Su Leslie 2019
The first clematis flowers this season. Image: Su Leslie 2019
“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.” — John Ruskin
Friday Flowers
Raindrop on manuka flower. Image: Su Leslie 2019
The first six months of 2019 were the driest on record in Auckland, and now August is looking like being the wettest — with rain on 19 of 23 days, and more to come.
I’ve stopped worrying about parched soil and the water level in our tank, but I think I might need some taller gumboots (wellies, rain boots, Regenstiefel, botas de lluvia; whatever they’re called in your part of the world).
And of course raindrops on flower petals are rather pretty.
Manuka flower. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Manuka flower. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Friday Flowers
Struggling to find many flowers that have survived the last week’s rain and wind. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Morning walk, The Square, Palmerston North, NZ. Image: Su Leslie 2019. Click image to enlarge.
