Accidental combinations

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My gardening is a bit haphazard, basically I can never resist accumulating more plants and then have to find a space to squeeze them in wherever I can. And then every spring I (and often one of the girls as well) sow seeds of various annual flowers and then by the time they are ready to plant out they just get dotted about here and there wherever we can find a bit of space and any idea of a carefully-planned colour scheme soon goes to pot. In any case we often get seed of mixed colours so don’t know what colour the flowers will be until later. So it’s always a bit of a surprise, but now and then we end up with a particularly pleasing combination just by accident. I loved the rich colours of these two flowers together. The red are annual ‘snapdragons’ (Antirrhinum majus), but the yellow, although they look very similar, are actually from a short-lived perennial plant called ‘monkey flower’ (Mimulus guttatus) that I picked up at a local plant sale. So far it has grown back each year and is doing surprisingly well even though growing advice seems to say it needs constant moisture and it certainly hasn’t had that this year! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.