Emily AKA Little Mouse November 2007 - 21st August 2021

  The garden's been enjoying the recent rains following a hot, dry spell. Here's the view from our kitchen window, which is currently home to two baby money plants, and an unidentified succulent which has lovely sculptural, fat spines liberally patterned with raised white dots. I've enjoyed watching this lovely lily come into bloom, with its rich shades of orange and russet. The fuchsia behind was one of Richard's finds; he's especially keen on fuchsias. The log was placed over the tub to stop Emily from burying toys in the soil, after she'd already dug the plant up twice. What a shame that lily flowers don't last long. Here's one of my favourites, the crimson "Lucifer" variety of crocosmia. I have two of these in separate tubs, and I suspect they'd be much happier planted in the ground as one of them hasn't flowered at all this year, while they other, the one in this photo, hasn't spread. When I had them in the ground, prior to mov