So today is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day over at May Dreams Garden – a really rad monthly event where garden bloggers post photos and comments about what’s blooming in their gardens on the 15th of every month. Nice idea, especially since you get to see what happening in gardens all over the world, where seasons and climates are different.
This month, I really did mean to take pics of the garden (and my new pots full of lettuces and herbs) and start getting into the whole garden blogging community spirit. (And besides, in varsity, I slogged my way through Ulysses; I get the pun on Bloom Days… Who says garden bloggers can’t have literary pretensions?) But. This is South Africa, and more specifically, Joburg, on the brink of winter. And an oddly damp autumn it’s proving to be. So this morning, when I went outside to take photos, all the flowers were either closed up tight against the cold and the dew, or in complete shadow. And I got home after dark.
So, at the risk of sounding like a whingey baby, I have to say that I couldn’t take any pictures. Or at least none that I can really feel proud of. I’m all for the blogosphere seeing my garden, but I want it to look nice, dammit. And therefore, I’ve decided t cheat a bit. I’m going to upload a pic of my garden last winter. When it looked, even if I do say so myself, pretty damn groovy:
Namaqualand daisies have got to be the most gratifying things in the world.
With any luck, I’ll be able to get out tomorrow and take some real pics of things that are actually growing in my garden right now…
