Traveller's seeds

There is a saying in old English weather lore – “Red sky at night shepherd’s delight, red sky in the morning shepherd’s warning.”

This is a perennial plant that grows in warm sunny climes. The flowers appear in late afternoon and are gone by the morrow.



Each flower is a different colour – pink, yellow, red, striped, etc.; they are the colours of the evening sky as the sun fades and they bring the promise of a new day. I know them as “evening flowers” but the label on the seed packet I found in the greenhouse in the gardens of Riversleigh says “Shepherd’s delight”.