The mainly yellow corner looking a bit bedraggled after yesterday's rain. Of the ten potted on, the three up by the ponds, more or less in the shade, never really got going and succumbed to slugs and worms. Not sure where this last came from, with my having thought that the compost came sterile. The remaining seven are rather a mixed bag, so I clearly need a bit more practise and a bit more volume if I am to produce 5 prize winning blooms for the Stamford Green Summer Show. I think judges at such shows can get just a touch pedantic about the blooms submitted being identical, or failing that at least smoothly graded.
But they have come on since they were last snapped in the middle of June, at reference 1, during which period they had a holiday in the shade, while we were in the Isle of Wight.
The two sage plants from left might date from last Christmas, when we made sage and onion stuffing (unstuffed) to go with the festive fowl. With little pots of rooted sage being sold by Sainsbury's and Waitrose at that time of year - with the catch seeming to be that however it was that these plants were propagated and brought on for sale, they take a very long time to recover from being mowed and potted on.
Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/06/sunflowers.html.
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