Little Red Flax

In all my borders there is at least one little red flax. These brighten up the winter days and stay neat and beautiful throughout the other seasons. They glow with sunset colours when in sunshine. This is Jeremy's border by the front of the house, with its resident small red flax.

small red flax in jeremy border - archives photograph

Footnote

I'm writing this footnote in the summer of 2005, to report on the progress of the so-called 'little red flax'. Two things are wrong - firstly, the word 'red'. The flax in Jeremy's border has changed into all sorts of other colours, and large chunks of it have valiantly tried to revert to the olive green of the species. But not a blade of red!

The word 'small' is also quite interesting. When was this plant small? It is now person-sized, far too bulky for its position, and has lost all its original cuteness. Progress? Hmm...