On the Beach.

It ’s been too hot to blog lately , too spicy to do anything but consist in the hammock and interpret and plot new projects for the garden . Oh , and there ’s been irrigate to do of course , endless , back - break dance lachrymation . So this is not a berth about the existent beach ; I have n’t been there for month , there are too many ‘ staycationers ’ teem around on all my favorite beach . But my shed attend like a beach field hut and I have created a small beach all round off it . It ’s a pity there is no cool water to plunge into but I have a stack of blue flowers to cool me down . I have waves of blue agapanthus for the sea with blank ones to represent the surf . OK , you have to squint at them and habituate your imagination to imagine it as the sea .

I have shells and fossils and stones which I have picked up over the years .

I even have a nonmigratory seagull .

I have a lovely sky disconsolate flax to give me a taste of the holiday we had to cancel last month . We had plan to pedal the ‘ Véloroute du Lin ’ which follows the traditional flax route across Normandy . So instead of field of blue-blooded I have this , which is pretty , but I would love to see fields of it .

I have fabulousEryngium bourgatii‘Picos Blue ’ in metallic blue . I have seen this growing in backbone dunes on Mediterranean beaches so it should be at household here in the gravel .

I like thistly plants and I have another one on my beach which is probably not particularly maritime , it come from South Africa . I like its silvery lilac flowers and I get it on the spiky leaves . It is called Berkheya purpurea .

Bulbine frutescensis another South African plant life , this time with fleshy leaves . I think it looks honest growing in the crushed rock . I came upon it for the first time grow on a carousel in France . To my pity , I chance the Pianist ’s disapproval , demise by being go over and angry gendarme because I just had to have a lilliputian piece of it . as luck would have it it develop easily from tiny while and so I keep some in the greenhouse every wintertime as it is not hardy .

You often see sea campion on cliffs and I love any sort of campion . This is the variegated one , Silene uniflora‘Druett ’s Variegated ’

The endearing starry lilac peak areTulbaghia violacea . It looks good with the eryngium foliation .

And yes , that is a foot below . In the foreground is another campion which seed and propagate readily which is favourable because people are always asking for a bit .

I always knew of this asSilene uniflorabut I think it may be calledSilene maritimanow .

I have it in pink too .

I do n’t conjecture camapanulas are particularly beachy but I bonk them , specially the little ones so I have a few dinky bells ringing in the gravel .

Other plants which are very much seaside plants are various kinds of Drift , Armeria maritimawhich bloom in former summer .

The tusk Sea Poppy grows on beaches here in Suffolk and the aboriginal one is yellowish . I love this orange one , Glaucium flavumvar.aurantiacum . The flowers are pretty but now they are over . I have issue off all the stems and enjoy the lovely Zane Grey leaves .

Lined up outside my shed I have a survival of succulent . I seem to have a surprising turn of these which is uneven as yr ago I did n’t even like them . I pass in love with them when I go to Tresco in the Scilly Isles . I associate them with seaside piazza after hear them constitute all over the cliffs at the open air theatre at Minack in Cornwall . I wish I had some cliff to exhibit them .

But the pièce de résistance of my beach in summertime is the agapanthus . I grew them all from seeded player and they have all come out bigger and better than any of their parents . So here they are remind me once again of Tresco where they have escaped from the gardens to roam about on the dunes .

So now I have shared my beach with you I am off to see what everyone else has been doing whilst I lazed in my sack . If you live in the UK , I hope your garden have live on the intense heat . And you too . There have been Clarence Day when I nearly climbed into the goldfish pool to chill off .

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Oh thank you for the trip to the seaside Chloris which was most fresh . I ’m not certain whether we will get to see the ocean this yr which is sad . We have postpone a vacation based in Nice this October which I was really looking forrard to . I had to chuckle at your put-on on a French roundabout . I ’ve had enough trouble over the years trying to take photos of their awful roundabout as himself has just want to drive through as quickly as possible . I think that he would in all probability tug off and leave me if I am attempted to extract a snippet of a plant 😂 Beautiful agapanthus .

Really loving it .

Berkheya , campion , genus Glaucium , agapanthus , succulent — so many of your plants are also in my garden a mile from the beach in So . Caif . grow up here , I ’ve stick around aside from the beach for many years — too crowded , parking , etc — but in this pandemic yr I decided to expect around and plant a beach not far that get very few visitors . And I ’ve since regain out for good reasonableness ! Apparently stingrays love to string up out in the shallows , and more people are stung here than anywhere in the U.S. ! I stay out of the piss and flow out with a Good Book on the mostly empty beach except for seagull . So glad you obtain a “ beach ” to enjoy too .

I live those agapanthus . I have two big seed head so I will taste to accumulate then in . Are they easy to grow from seminal fluid ?

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