Bonkers

Apologies in advance to all blippers for another plant image, however, I promise, this is one with a difference.

In the spring of 2012, following many TV and press reports, I decided to do my bit to increase bee stocks by giving up part of the garden as a wild flower meadow. We should provide a ribbon of nectar throughout the land to enable bees to easily move from place to place they said and so I embarked on the madness of buying expensive, well ...... weeds!

The summer of 2012 turned out to be one of the most abysmal on record, well at least here in Scotland, and I helplessly watched day in and day out from my kitchen window as a bog garden formed from monsoon-type weather conditions.

Clearly, the aspirations of a wildflower meadow weren't going to materialise and this year I still have one or two remnants of those expensive weeds which nicely brings to centre stage today's blip .... the one and only Ribwort Plantain, which, according to Wikipedia, is 'a common weed of cultivated land' and which, to my recollection grew in abundance in my parents lawn when I was a child!