Here's the circle the other way around!
Yesterday my friend LeapingGazelle shared her beautiful new piece "My Secret Garden" with me:
Stunning, isn't it? Ethereal yet grounded in Nature. She calls the flowers columbines, I call them aquilegia - and I have lots in my garden!
The purple one is how they're supposed to look...
yet some of them seem to have been on steroids!
I read somewhere (can't find the source now of course) that the extra rows of petals are due to disease - but aren't they lovely?
Oops - I can see I have some dead-heading to do! I always allow the flowers to self-seed, but not just yet. I've found if I dead-head (for as long as I can be bothered) they will carry on flowering, knowing their season's cycle isn't yet complete.
