John is on a work-related trip to D.C. this week, so neither of us are being local... But I was delighted today to see one of my favorite local "weeds" growing on purpose in a formal French garden: Spiderwort!
I had heard that this maligned wildflower was coddled in cottage gardens in Britain; I was happy to find it in Paris as well. It's a bit paler and pinker than our robust local version, but it was lovely interplanted ith a bed of red roses. It lined the walkway of a portion of the 4.5 km "Promenade Plantée," - the beautiful linear garden planted along an ancient viaduct that begins less than a mile from my apartment and end at the Bastille. Seeing it today was like running into an old friend! (I'm a bit lonely.)
I think spiderwort is pretty, anywhere. So there. And a hearty hello from Texas, where it is 100 degrees and I am lonely, too (one son is gone on his graduation gift trip to a debate tournament, and my FIL is ill so my husband is rushing to the farm to help...)
Posted by: Suna | June 14, 2009 at 09:10 AM