Sunday Selections # 244

Welcome back to Sunday Selections!

This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to showing on our blogs.

The rules are very simple:-

1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title

2. link back to me, River, somewhere in your post

3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and see what you've posted.

4. hop on over to Elephant’s Child to see more of her wonderful photos.

  Andrew often joins in too.

I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week we're back in my garden.

I wonder how many of you remember me planting my first seedlings here at my current home?

September 2013, I planted 18-24 tiny seedlings of Erigeron, also called seaside daisies.

three or four punnets of six seedlings each. I don't remember exactly how many and some of them died, one got stolen :(

so tiny. Planted under the roses,

following the curve of the path. I watered them for two summers, then left them to cope with the random watering done by neighbour P, who waters the roses, sort of. She doesn't water deeply near the roots where it is needed, she's a sprinkler, wets everything including foliage, then goes back inside. Yet the roses survive, probably because they are so well established.

here are those same seedlings. Bushy, knee high,

and covered in tiny white and pink daisies. They open pink and fade to white as they age.

Now for even more prettiness.

remember the ixias (bulbs) I had in a pot last summer? (along with other varieties of bulbs in pots.)
I have them in the ground this summer, where I will let them multiply and spread. Ixias are tall growing, but with very slim stems and as the sprays of buds open they droop and sway in the slightest breeze.  So I planted most of them inside the frame of my windmill where they might get at least a little support.

Here they are>>>

such delicate gorgeousness,

in a range of whites, pinks,

creamy yellows,

ooh, another pink.

a pink and yellow combination,

and a paler pinky yellow.

another pink spray

here is a side view, with miner gnome Mike smiling up at the beauty.

my ranunculus have thrived better than I expected, so many of the stored bulbs crumbled away to dust.
Next autumn I will purchase double whites, and plant those bulbs randomly amongst the red, they should look wonderful next summer. The young buds are a deep red, the pink ones in the foreground are the oldest blooms. 

the windmill that is supporting the delicate ixias, left of the windmill you'll see the dusty millers that are now quite large.


and finally>>>

watermelon snack. I love summer fruits!