And here is the annual photo of the mountain strawberry plant that we won in the Marengo Centre raffle several years ago. Still, to my amazement, going strong, and in fact a lot more flowers appeared in the weeks after I took this photograph.
We could not make our annual visit to the local nursery on South Ronaldsay this year for obvious reasons, and so missed the chance to choose new bedding plants for our troughs and pots while scoffing home bakes and donating to the local lifeboat. It was a loss. That said they did put their plants on-line and offered a delivery service so the OH ordered a pile of plants and potted them up when they were delivered. I thought I had lots of photos of these, but it seems I was wrong.
Here however is a very cheerful scarlet geranium which we bought when the garden centre in town was allowed to re-open. We expected there to be ravening hordes, but in fact it was pretty quiet. We've not made a habit of buying bedding plants here because usually by the time we remember and get there all the good stuff is long gone to the homes of proper gardeners who are much more on the ball about when to go and get stuff, but this time they place had loads of plants and they were all healthy and sturdy looking. Having splurged our budget on the home delivery from the other place sadly we had to restrain ourselves here, but then again the other place had been very deficient in the geranium department so we splashed out on this. I do like a nice bright red geranium.
Ooh, I like the sound of that nursery on South Ronaldsay!
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