Umbellifer Weather

From the periwinkle-blue jellyfish flowers of Didiscus caeruleus to the neon paint spatters of giant fennel, the umbellifers have been particularly impressive in my garden this year.

First of all, I’d like it to be known that *I* came up with that headline; it wasn’t AI-generated, I take full credit. The pun came to me as I was watering my pots one evening in 30 degree heat. I was thinking about how good the garden’s been this year, no doubt due to the hours and hours of sunshine we’ve had (punctuated only recently by spells of drenching rain). And how I’ve noticed particularly the umbellifers; those beautifully delicate flowerheads made up of hundreds of tiny flowers on geometrically perfect spokes.