I was early for Gail's Wildflower-Wednesday. Last week the flowers were foreign, today they are Proudly South African. Perhaps
the spirit of WFW is more about the wildflowers that would grow in my garden,
if nature decided. Yellow Oxalis. White
rain daisies on otherwise bare earth. In the damp hollows Melianthus and arum lilies. Where the winter rain leaves a few
inches of standing water, vlei lilies.
Most of my bulbs were grown from seed. Fairy
bells of Melasphaerula. White Babiana inherited from the previous
gardener. Vlei lilies, seed didn’t work, so I bought bulbs with delight, when I
found them. Arum lily snuck in with a Strelitzia.
Freesia alba once from seed, now self-sown. Dietes some inherited, some from seed, some as bulbs – but somehow,
they are all the same species.
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| Melasphaerula, Babiana, vlei lily arum, Freesia alba, Dietes |
