Thank you so much Floral, it is beautiful!

Tedhort, as usual, has done it again: Ricinus, the 'Caster Oil' plant, considered a weed in this part of the world. While the fruit cap is poisonous (and attractive to children) it is useful commercially as an ingrediant - at least it use to be - medicinally, as well as in the timber trade for varnishes.

Okay here are pictures - it's the best I could get with dying batteries and without digging out the tripod. You'll get the point anyway. This is how thickly they grow. (I should add that last years first frost hit them really bad. I thought they were dead and cut them back to the ground, but didn't pull them up and they have a hollow stalk - this is how thick they are less than a year after that) Sorry this the flowers in the foreground are blurry, my camera foucused on the flowers in the background. And this is how thin and reed-like they are. The stalks were thicker (but I'd still say they were reed-like) before last years frost. But these are fairly young plants. ~~ Okay I hope I did these pictures right ~~

Scilla peruviana. Did not like my clay soil. Needs something lighter