Another Soggy Flower

First job of the day was to empty and clean both of our water butts - for some reason the water had become ‘sour’ and was full of some sort of growth. They smelt absolutely disgusting - like something had deceased in them!! Never happened before in over twenty years of collecting rainwater!! It may or may not be related to the fact that they both ran dry a few weeks ago or the we recently had our gutters cleaned, potentially dislodging something nasty (pigeon guano maybe??)…

Anyway, they have been scrubbed and disinfected and reconnected. Fortunately (from a water collection point of view) we have had a wet day and the first butt is about a third full already..when that fills it overflows and fills the second one….fingers crossed for a little more rain.

Picture taken in the garden today as I haven’t ventured far - just to the village shop for emergency chocolate supplies…something to take the taste/smell of rancid water away :-)

There is no label in the pot - so I have no idea what this flower is. I had to use a little light boost from my LED panel!!