Grasslands

Wild flower ways.

The every prayer ever prayed
For just two wild flowers that grow

La la la la la la la la la on stones....

(Neil Diamond)

Contrive as we may to garden with style, nature often surpasses our best efforts. Flowers of such simplicity as the corn poppy flowering on mass, on what is the poorest of disturbed soil, provide a spectacular springtime show. Here via natures artful flourish, the blue of the borage flower punctuates the red poppy cloud. Follow that if you can…….

Town and country

This photograph locates our finca (marked in red line) on the edge of the pueblo although we have some protection from the oak and stone- pine trees on one side we are also bounded by open farm land. The fields which are fairly small are used for the production of barley.

Open terrain and grazing sheep mean that we get weeds in abundance. We have watched the wild flowers and grasses over two seasons and we are decideding which we can retain.

Xeriscape style gardening may be the answer for our hot dry plot, using plants native to the region.

Gentian

This wild flower is a gentian which has germinated in the disturbed earth around the flower beds we are digging. 

Along with the red Poppies and the blue of the Borage flowers it is well worth trying to maintain. 

It seems to thrive in poor soil and that we have plenty of!

Wild flowers

The soft blue flowers of the borage plants contrast with the strong form of the stone pines.




April brings the first sign of colour to the landscape field poppies sprout from disturbed earth.