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In the summer of 2016 I planted some seeds, which sprouted and grew into Ms. Echinacea, who lives by the window in my room. She has grown too tall to sit on the window-sill with the other plants and I have recently re-potted her as she needed more space.
Last year, she was still small, producing only a few buds at a time. But the green burst into colour and thrilled me when I saw it for the first time.
This year, happy in her larger pot, she has been flowering away. I decided to take her outside in the sunshine and get some photos in the front garden. There I spotted what appeared to be a flower-headed dog...
...this turned out to be Shanti of course, contemplating life from a cano-lupine perspective and messing with my head.
She performs a sniffspection, as is her wont.
Yes, you're a big Shantiwolf now, and these are little green buds!
There's a lame flower too - stalk unable to support the heaviness of the bloom - it's got a wooden crutch!
What delicious colours - the entire spectrum (ok ok no blues) from red to violet on display in spikes, petals and sunlight.
...leafy green too!
....and there's that flowerdog again!
So what does Barge do with all the flowers and the leaves once they are dead and dry?, you may ask. Great question, coz Echinacea has some fine and dandy properties. Well, I collect and store them in glass jars which sit on a shelf in my room, awaiting the Day of Use, when I will have understood what is to be done, and will have the means and the motivation to do it.
Photography posts:-
Bees
Flash the cat
New York City
Tahiti & French Polynesia
Workers in Dubai
Diary Travelogues:-
UK to India overland by car (1973)
Eastern Europe - Poland, Russia, the Baltics (1994)
The Nile and the Pharaohs - Egypt (1996)
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon (1996)