Tuesday Incoherence

A few posts back I remarked that my volunteer Cerinthes were losing the blue on their bracts;  I was wrong.  In one part of the garden, they are bluer than ever.

I will try to spread seeds from these plants, and pull the non-blue ones, to keep the blue level high.  They are another plant the hummingbirds love. 

The Silky Net Bush, Calothamnus villosus, is blooming.  I read that it blooms on old wood.  I did not realize when the writer said "old wood", the writer meant old wood.  I thought old growth.  But its really old wood--right on the stems!  More hummingbird bait--with all the nectar in this garden, they may be too fat to fly.
 
A rare and perfect flower from 'Tea Clipper'.  

The buff color reminded me of 'English Garden'.  Here's 'English Garden':

They are similar in that they produce just a few flowers, all of them perfect and arresting.  'English Garden' is a tiny plant with little vigor that must be babied.  'Tea Clipper' is a large plant that is not babied at all.  


I've been working away at the Winter Project, and have made good progress, though I'm distracted somewhat by a number of things, mostly the puppies.  95% of my bandwidth is puppy.  Four percentage points for everything else, and one percentage point for blogging, which is why posts lately have been nearly mostly incoherent.  Surprisingly I've gotten a lot of things done in the garden, almost to the level of crossing "i"s and dotting "t"s--getting those little irksome things done that one means to do but hardly ever gets to.  One thing was getting rid of the Rosemary, the beautiful lush Rosemary that I loved.  It was harboring rats.  Adios, beloved Rosemary, enjoy the garbage bin.  Though the lemonade produced by that lemon is that I finally might have found the spot for my poor Chondropetalum, which has been stuffed into a pot for years and years.  Dead rosemary stems mixed with rats nest, a bit of the Rosemary left...

The bees may miss the Rosemary too--but there is and will be Cerinthe.