Saturday, 27 July 2024

Whites and brights

My balcony troughs of white flowering plants are coming along nicely,  lots of buds to open and the campanula spreading out to cover the compost.

I am particularly taken with this delphinium which I think is Dark Bee.

I have always loved white flowers, they feel so calm and in the evenings take on a magical luminosity. All of which contrasts nicely with my love of bright clothing. I read somewhere that if you wear black you disappear so as I get older I don’t steer away from vivid colours.  This applies to my knitting too, I am currently using up oddments of sock yarn and enjoying sorting the various colours into some lively combinations, these are the current pair,  I have even brighter ones planned.


However sock knitting isn’t quite as calm as usual because I worry that I might not have enough yarn to make a matching pair or even finish a pair, which is silly.  I have plenty of leftover oddments and where did it say a pair have to match.

4 comments:

  1. I've gone for full colour in our garden this year, I do like white blooms.

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  2. Pretty flowers...and yarn!
    Happy weekend!
    hugs
    Donna

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  3. Oh yes, I used to have a calm white patch in my garden until some yellow daffodils appeared and I swear I planted white narcissi bulbs. Your trough looks lovely.

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  4. Lovely blooms. You are high up! You must have a great view of the surrounding area.

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