It did Lily, so very cheerful news to report. The handover was easy, although I had to move location because the Bordelais got confused, and Choco spent the night in the big cage in Julesā old bed after we got home at 2am.
Extremely lively, dancing about on the lead like a flea but he rejected Julesā repeated requests to play.
At his new home this morning he was racing about everywhere like a Whippet and at one point leapt into the pool. They are delighted with him so I hope he is a stayer.
We managed a temporary mist, not enough even to leave drops on the deck - as you say though, cooler today and we have everything crossed! Whatās left of our veg will be very grateful
We are still discovering plants left by previous owners. Not so long ago we finished clearing a bed of sage which looked like it had been there for 30 or 40 yrs. The end result was a pile of dust but we noticed one interesting green shoot which we left. Itās now quite an attractive shrub
We havenāt looked after it or watered it and yet itās fresh and green so a very useful addition to the garden but havenāt been able to identify it. Any suggestions?
@Wozza Belle de nuitā¦ thatās certainly your photo I reckonā¦
if itās wrong, blame my neighbourā¦ Iāve just asked him (heās got it flowering outside his houseā¦)
Looks the same especially the leaves and it probably is a tobacco plant. Something weāve never grown before. Ours is about 2ft high. Do you know if it is an annual
If the flowers are mostly closed during the dayā¦ I think youāll find youāve got ābelle de nuitā which opens and attracts nightfliers moths et alā¦ during the evening/nightā¦
Belle de Nuit (tubers) perennial; but nicotiana is an annual which seeds quite freely and is a daytime flowerā¦
If itās growing like a shrub, I suspect the BdN tubers are doing their job very well.
NB: I got seeds from the neighbour but had little luck, as weāre mostly rockā¦ no chance for anything to get started, let alone form a tuberā¦
Mine are not annuel, I collect the seeds and rake in the soil in May, if I forget, some start coming up at the end of May (self sown). They usually flower until the cold weather sets in.
We have some of these, sown as seed. We have the pink and some white. Donāt know what theyāre called as I canāt find them in the seed box and the OH is out. They seem to be quite drought tolerant as they get little water and seem to thrive.
My neighbour is now looking very dourā¦ Iāve just chatted and asked him more about his (normally) lovely flowersā¦ seems I might have misunderstood his grumbly Frenchā¦ but no matterā¦ He reckons theyāre Belle de Nuit and come up every year in abundanceā¦ without him doing anything except cutting the stems close to the ground when they die off.
They are looking particularly sad at the moment, all the foliage is turning brown.
Hoping the rain will be sufficient to give the plants a second chance of flowering this yearā¦
The sun is now back with a vengeanceā¦ so heās gone back indoorsā¦ and here I am again, in the cool of my studyā¦
EDIT: and the really cheerful news is OH has just presented me with a tall glass of orange juice topped with tonicā¦ yummy. @geoffrey_Croshaw ā¦ when you try digging, seems you might find what looks like black carrotsā¦ eureka
Definitely Belle de Nuit. Marvel of Peru in English. We have some (rose colour) in our garden. Itās a thug. But very useful in a drought and in high summer when lots of other things are sulking.
