UFO (Unidentified Floral Object)Anyone who has been daft enough to persist with my ramblings over the past few years may recall the late, lamented VBA (Very Big Alsatian) and his encounter with the UFO (Unidentified Floral Object). For two summers the UFO appeared in The Dell, growing Triffid –like from the stony bed of the burn then, as suddenly as it appeared, it vanished.
Reference -Blog 06/05/2007
Yes, I know, who is going to remember that far back. O.K. It was a few years ago.
Today, while out poking about in a small wood downstream of The Dell ,where buzzards might be nesting and badgers have been busy, lo and behold, there was not one but two UFO’s and one of them looked as if it was beginning to flower. The long spike of a stamen was arising from a bract of leaves. They look like banana plants but even with global warming that would be really ridiculous. The mystery deepens. Obviously they are escapes but from where?
VBA and the original UFO May 2007VBA liked to cool off in the burn and regarded the intruder with suspicion but NCC has no horticultural leanings and regards the wood only as a source of things furry or feathered to chase, if only for amusement
We shall monitor the Triffid’s development. I have sent a picture to a website that answers garden questions to see if it is terrestrial or if our wood is the secret landing site for alien plant life come to colonise Earth.
If they have come to stay here, they are as green as they are cabbage-looking, things being the way they are at present.
