Today's Flowers -Benefits of Sheep manure

The shepherd from the eighbouring village sold me two bags of sheep manure recently. He said it was better than cow manure for the plants. He seems to be right, because all the flowers in my garden have a brighter and deeper colour now. That yellow rose is twice as bright in real life.

The red Salvias are a bright fire- engine red now.

Even the Euphorbia blooms are brighter.

Brugmansia is showing its first flowers after its slumber.

Heliconia need no brightening agent to make them stand out. In fact, I did not feed sheep manure to the heliconias at all.

I mixed four cupfuls of well rotted sheep manure to one bucket of compost and fed them to the flowering plants, and watered them freely. All the flowers have a richer colour now, and the plants are healthier.

My thanks to the team of Today's Flowers - Santilli, Denise, Pupo and Sandy Carlson.

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