Small Blossoms

Today again some pictures of a few plants that are flowering at the moment on my balcony.

Lavender

This is silene vulgaris. I think they are very pretty. Maybe I'm the only person who deliberately grows these. I collected seeds and sowed them.

This is a linum blossom. There are also some vicia leaves in this picture.

On this and the next picture there are galinsoga plants, that grew without any effort on my part. I let everything grow and try to get to know all the wild plants better by having them so close to me. I have galinsoga plants with slender leaves and some with bigger leaves, so maybe these are different sorts.

Still catching up on last year's pottery

I'm getting there!

I found these vases quite complicated to make, but I love their look!

This pot was part of a misfired kiln load. It has some flaws and even a little crack, but considering the circumstances it turned out quite nice. For some reason it's one of my favourites.

I used glass in these dishes and obviously I should have been a bit more generous with it in the flower dish. Maybe I try to fire it again at some point.

Peas and Ceramics

This is my 200th post in the three years of this blog's existence. I celebrate it with pictures of my pea harvests.






The early sorts begin to wither now but I have another pot full of later peas and these are soon ready to pick.

It's blooming

The first poppy blossoms today, making me feel quite elated! I thought it wouldn't work so well to grow them in a pot.

Here's the view to the other side. There are peas, lots of peas, the blooming potato, nasturtiums, dill, lavender, mint and some wild plants and my bell peppers are out now too but some of them are a bit sorry-looking. I hope they recover!

Balcony Blossoms

Calendula

Potato blossoms

Some sort of bell-flower I never sowed but that's growing nevertheless and is quite pretty.

This is one of the poppies I sowed. It's not flowering yet, but I'm really happy that I managed to grow them in a pot. I can't wait to see it in bloom!