#selfsown — Public Fediverse posts

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Seedheads on the self-sown teasels by the pond.
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Oh, I have been lazy again with my social media …
This border is planted with ornamental grasses, biennials and perennials - and also home to self sown biennials (Evening primrose, Teasels behind in the grass meadow) and annuals (Poppies, Corncockle). The grasses glow in the summer morning light.

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The bottom of the garden. Confusingly, the garden slopes *up* towards the bottom.
Bottom left the pond. The brick construction on the right is what we call the folly. Bees, other insects, birds and pond dwelling individuals love it. So do I.
Planted to feel and look natural, wild, full and overflowing. Weeds a.k.a. wildflowers are welcome.

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Colourburst on a grey, drizzly day in this corner of a border:
Blue flowering lavender and the last blue delphiniums, golden grasses, white Cenolophium denudatum, red and yellow Gaillardia aristata, yellow Rudbeckia hirta, yellow self sown evening primrose, purple seedheads on a self sown Lunaria annua (honesty), purple stems on the Selinum wallichianum, a few of the last Marguerites, green foliage.

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This border is what I see when I look out of the living room patio doors.
Essentially, this is a grasses border interplanted with perennials - plus self sown annuals and biennials.
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As I said before, happiness is an overflowing garden. Here, the paved path from the patio to the pond is becoming almost impassable. As I walk, the plants grab me and touch my skin. Beautiful!
Again - Good: Walk barefoot.
Better: Barefoot + bare arms and legs.
Best: Shed your clothes altogether if your garden is sufficiently private.
Heightens your senses, brightens the dullest day and banishes gloomy thoughts.
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Happiness is an overflowing garden. At this time of the year, I cannot walk through the garden without the plants grabbing me and touching my skin. The garden is overflowing, difficult to navigate, easy to lose yourself in and hide from everyone else. Beautiful!
Good: Walk barefoot.
Better: Barefoot + bare arms and legs.
Best: Shed your clothes altogether if your garden is sufficiently private.
Heightens your senses, brightens the dullest day and banishes gloomy thoughts.
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Exciting: Discovered a new wildflower in the garden, which I think we never had before. It appears to be a Pyramidal orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis.
Another individual, who arrived on the wind and decided to stay.
Apparently native and widespread in England and Wales. A favourite with butterflies and moths.
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Part of the garden by the side of the house. Used to be a bare, utilitarian strip with only the tree, shrubs and hedging. I then transformed it into something more appealing over the course of three or four years. Wildflower mounds towards the back.
In the centre of the photograph, the bigger of our two Angelica archangelica (Garden angelica).
They are biennials but, curiously, in their third (!) year.
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“Such are the joys”
... of a natural garden, in which not every #weed is mercilessly persecuted and killed. #SelfSown. Perhaps barley, rye or wheat.
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#SelfSown in a border, where it chose to be, I think this very attractive plant is a #Daucus carota, Wild #carrot.
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A #SelfSown #teasel and a #Verbena bonariensis are competing for height, both well over 2 metres tall.
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Giant #dock in the #garden. I love #SelfSown plants that come up, where they have chosen to be.
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I love the colour combination in this border! Deliberately placed and several #SelfSown plants.
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Our field (or is it a forest?) of flowering #Knautia macedonica in the evening sun, quite a few of them self-sown from the original #plants.

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A white self-sown #Digitalis flowers unassumingly in the #stumpery.
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I love #SelfSown plants. Often, they end up in just the right place. Here, #Erigeron in the #folly under our rusty bench.

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The #selfSown prunus in a privet hedge bursts into flower suddenly and very early every year. Seems to be a #Prunus #cerasifera (Cherry plum).
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