The following six plants are worth their weight in gold in this garden. We are said to be experiencing one in fifty year, if not seventy year, heat and drought in Toscana. These plants are all locals, having been collected by seed or slip from within a radius of two kms of the garden, or having introduced themselves. I don't know their accurate scientific names and have used Fitter and Blamey,'Fiori Selvatici' to try to work out what they are. Any comments would be most welcome.
It is a good lesson for me, the local plants are doing so much better than the imports and are a lot less work. They have received no applied water.