The year after we moved here I planted three Yellow Flags (
Iris pseudacorus) in the boggiest part of the front garden. It's always boggy there in part because it's part of a boggy hill in a place with a wet climate but also because under that part of the garden is a soakaway. The winter after I planted the flags I took this shot that shows what I call the mark of the soakaway. It gives a clue about the water drainage on a frosty morning.
Three years on from the first pic you can see that the flags are doing well. Meadow buttercups (
Ranunculus acris) don't need any encouragement down there either! 😊
This morning the flag patch looks like this from the top of the bank on which the house is built. I tidied it up a bit from what it looked like in November (see below). Beyond the flag patch is a wild angelica patch. More on that another time.
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flag leaves are tough;
even the scythe finds them so |
Roll on summer and the hopeful signs of budding flag plants and then their brave show:
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| June 2015 |
Flag seed heads can look quite arty, and snails seem to like the leaves.
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