The plot isn't very beautiful just now. It's either frosty, with friable, crusted earth, or frost-burnt, wet, sticky and weedy.
But occasionally there's an unexpected glimpse of beauty.
These chinese lanterns and polyanthus are part of a little flower bed tended by a group of plotholders who try to counteract the gloom of the site in the fallow months. During the winter it can seem nothing more than a sea of huts, black plastic, sagging netting and tatty cabbages. But here's a reminder that allotments needn't always be dour and functional.
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12 comments:
Even during the chill there's always the beauty of potential.
The photos of the Chinese lanterns are wonderful. Great shots.
Those Chinese Lanterns are certainly photogenic! Your first photo of them (the close-up) is really nice.
So you haven't been digging yet then??
always something to admire somewhere... just have to keep eyes open..
Your first photos look very familiar. We don't have anything like the last up at our allotments. it is a stark time of year.
A little color can really give you a lift, great photos.
The Chinese latern photos are gorgeous! So eye catching.
Very lovely - one of my allotment neighbours has a chaenomeles hedge on her allotment and it makes me smile every time I walk past it.
I have never had luck with growing the Chinese Lanterns.
What potential in that soil and a wondeful photo of the Chinese lanterns.
That's glorious! We haven't had a proper winter here; little snow and warm-ish temperatures but even still, our community garden hasn't a speck of green yet. The flowers are a great touch in a community garden, plus they are useful in that they draw pollinating insects. Wonderful photos!
Wow, looks nice, and something I have never seen here in Norway.
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