Freesia–these are lovely flowers, although they kind of lay down out in the yard. I don’t know if that is the way they are, or if I didn’t plant the bulbs deep enough. Either way, I love the flowers. They have a fresh scent that reminds me of soap–clean, flowery and just a hint of spice. Beautiful! So far the mixed bulb pack has yielded white, purple, red/yellow center, yellow, pink-red and sort of a fuscia with yellow centers.

The rain barrels worked very well even without a gutter system up! Between the two barrels I probably got almost a quarter of a barrel. Used some of the water on my garden this morning. I’ll need to get cinder blocks and raise them up to make it easier to get the water out and we’ll work on gutters this weekend! It’ll be great to have the extra water–assuming it rains!

Best Read of the week: Flash fiction over at Abyss and Apex, a very short story by Desmond Warzel: wikihistory