You’ll no doubt have noticed that some flowers close up for the night. I wasn’t aware that cinquefoils had this habit until I wandered into the garden to take a portrait of Potentilla thurberi ‘Monarch’s Velvet’…
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Day 200: perennial pea
“What’s the point of a sweet pea that doesn’t smell?”, people ask. Unless you’re blessed with a slug-free garden where you can sow directly into the soil, raising a sweet pea from seed is a bit of a faff without the reward of their delicious perfume.
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