Dystopian Flower Festival.

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Everything in the garden is sunny or is it?

Our intrepid reporter found these poppies in prison. Find out where they are at the end.

The show garden you didn’t see on television.

The garden you never leave…

This is where the lonely poppies live. Our lovely Kings Park council nursery closed down by the council in 2024. It was on my walk home, I collected a few plants every week, school children came after school...

If you want to cheer yourself up why not visit another slightly bigger King’s Park..

Kings Park | Kings Park

Do you have a favourite place to buy plants?

20 thoughts on “Dystopian Flower Festival.”

  1. I hardly ever buy a plant. My garden is chock full, both with intentional plants and volunteers that have filled in the spaces between them. If a plant looks good, I have trouble pulling it out. I occasionally remove some especially numerous specimens to make room for something new, but the new plant is usually a rooted cutting or division of something I already have but want more of. I’ve also found that the latest varieties are often too needy to survive in my garden, with its dry shade full of tree roots.

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    1. Yes they are, also called Cape Daisies here, because they come from South Africa? Our first few years in this house we ended up with enormous bushes of them because we had mild winters, then one Christmas we had a lovely week of hard frosts and everything looked pretty, but the osteospermums were reduced to a soggy heap!

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  3. We do have a lot of donated plants because we had nothing when we moved into our home, and we had a big back yard. We buy a few things every month, and we’ve been in our house for a year, so it’s looking good. The last picture is a pretty sad view. Poppies are pretty sad creatures once they are finished blooming.

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  6. I am lucky enough to live near the King’s Park in Western Australia mentioned in Janet’s blog. It is very beautiful and much valued by Perth residents and visitors alike. If you’re ever here, pop in for a cup of tea!

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  8. I don’t buy any plants now. The last ones I bought all died, (despite following instructions) and I just gave up on planting. The only things I ever planted that didn’t die are Rosemary and Mint, and they both grew out of control so I just chop them back once a year.

    Best wishes, Pete.

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  9. That abandoned nursery looks so forlorn! I am a real scrooge when it comes to plant buying. Occasionally I will pick one up at an event locally – a produce market or plant fair. I did buy some perennial vegetables this year in an attempt to reduce my seed buying list. I take cuttings of what I already have and pick wayward twigs from hedgerows and gardens plus blagging pieces as cuttings and self-seeded plants from friends.

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