This is the First Freesia of 2010.
Not only are freesias beautiful and strong -- they very rarely get chewed to bits by snails and bugs or battered by the weather, and they pop reliably up and flower every year without any help from me -- but they also smell divine. It's probably only a matter of time before we can blog smells as well, but in the meantime you'll have to imagine it.
In which the Ughmann, doing climate science denialism yet again, and "Ned",
bending the knee in Chicken Little style yet again, hold forth ...
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The reptiles were full of it early this weekend, with a pointy Putin
putting it to King Donald ...
Right down at the bottom the the reptiles deigned...
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A lovely image, all whites and creams.
I've never grown freesias, thinking they'd be too fragile, although I regularly plant daffodils (easy) and tulips (variable success), but now I'm encouraged to give them a try next spring.
One of Sydney's little miracles is Waverley Cemetery between Bronte and Clovelly - a windswept seaside suburb of the dead. It's been a few years since I last had a spring wander, but it used to be carpeted between the tombs with freesias. You could smell the place a long time before you set eyes upon it.
Morning freeze less freezier?
Springtime breeze more breezier?
Feeling wheezy-sneezier?
Must be time for friesias.
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