October and our False Bay garden
by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity in Cape Town, South Africa October has filled our garden with flowers. Posies on the windowsills. Pelargoniums for blowsy colour and Iceberg for fragrant elegance. Posies on the windowsills Salmon pelargonium explosion. Pink pelargonium with pretty marking on petals and leaves. Melianthus major . That salmon pelargonium Celeste's iris and memories of my mother's garden for Through the Garden Gate Down by the Sea in Dorset with Sarah. Celeste's iris Perfect deep blue Anchusa capensis . Elaborate purple spire of Coleus neochilus . Left edible mint, right Coleus madagascariensis - not to be confused! Blue and white garden We took our egg boxes and jam jars to Heart and Soil . Where we met the goats for the cheese. Generous bunch of Swiss chard did 2 meals. Enjoying their marmalade. From Heart and Soil Bunch of bananas still, slowly turning yellow. We have trimmed off 2 to try. Fierc
