The Beauty and the Beast

                                                 Rosa "Bonica"

The Roses are putting on a fabulous show right now .

               This beauty  Rosa "Bonica" is one of my favourites .

                                     Amorphophallus konjac 

      But the Beast has not yet finished it's outrageous performance !

           I am not detecting any fragrance and not so many flies are being attracted .

                                       These are fascinating plants .

                                    Amorphophallus konjac .

                                    Sauromatum venosum

Sauromatum venosum is now withering .

The beautiful spotted spathe is curling up .       Leaving just the long thin spadix .

Next if pollinated it will form a seed head at the bottom which would be fantastic ! 

   I can grow more !   🤩

Anyway , then a single petiole (stalk) should push up with lovely leaf on top . 

I will plant this out after it dies back in the early Autumn  and all my voodoo lilies will get covered with a nice thick mulch to keep them cosy and warm through the Winter months . 

Hopefully it will make one or two off-shoots , little tubers and then we'll have a nice clump of these sweet little monsters !

I sent away for some Arisaema speciosum  , Cobra Lily seeds to try .  

Other news -

We harvested a couple of tubs of our First Early Red Duke of York potatoes . 

Husband really enjoyed himself hunting for the beautiful red spuds  !

  My little grand daughter will do the next lot for me , which was the main reason I grew them in tubs this year .

We will use these straight away. (already had some ) Red Duke of York , turns out to be a very nice variety of potato . Not one single slug hole ! Very pleased !  

The storm clouds have gone . Didn't hear any thunder , plenty of rain . Everything refreshed again in the garden and the water butt refilled . 

The hot sun has come out again . I can only do garden operations very early in the morning or evening during these hot Summer months . 

I must remember to cover up and wear my sun hat when we go out on our walks .

        

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