This weekend was the first show of the season and I looked around the plot for flowers. Flowers only is the tradition here for the first show - no veg. and no home baking.
We only had two exhibits and I am pleased to record they both gained second prize. Once again they had been rescued. The penstemons, which flowered a month early, were hauled out by customers who wanted to redesign a bed, taken and replanted next to our shed. They needed a fair amount of cossetting and cutting back before they recovered from such a translocation. But they are tough hardy perennials and came back into bloom in a shade that might be called an icy, minty purple.
Likewise the non-bearded iris - large yellow and cream blooms. They are prolific, common to this area and our customer was bored with them. We dug them up from her front garden and replanted them in a large recycled rubber tyre. They won second prize in their category (for the second time).
At the end of the show I bid 40p in the auction and came home with a huge bunch of flowering shrubs, honeysuckle and roses. The scent of the mock-orange blossom is now filling our living room.
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