Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Always the first of the geraniums to appear, the mourning widow (Geranium phaeum) sneaks into the borders while everyone’s making a fuss of the tulips, gradually elevating her stems from a growing mound of mid green leaves until, suddenly, the tiny flowers, beloved of bees and those flies that pretend to be bees (called, unimaginatively, bee flies or Bombyliidae). Petals of a rich plum colour, looking almost black in the brightness of the sun as they hover above forget-me-nots finally getting into their stride.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
