Patron Saint of young seedling and flowers

Yesterday, 12th of May was the Holy Pankratius day. According to the Swiss folklore, Pankratius is the Patron Saint of the young seeds and flowers but I haven’t found any record which states that the Saint is a hobbyist gardener of horticulturist.

As I read further, I found out that St. Pankratius was born in 290 A.D and at the age of 14, he died of martyrhood under the Emperor Diocletian in Rome. So, I’ll let him rest in peace.

According to the local farmer’s almanac;
If it freezes on St. Pankratius day, the garden will be ruined but if it is a nice day on St. Pankratius, the wine (grapes) will be fine.

The weather wasn’t that great yesterday. Half of the day was dry but cloudy, cool,
and raining from midday onwards.
In pictures above and on the left, I thought the rain drops looked a lot like cut diamonds on the Ladies Mantle or Alchemilla Mollis leaves.

There was no freeze or frost last night, so my prediction this year will probably be the same like last year, with lots of rainy days, bindweeds and other unwanted weedy plants will be growing at the speed of light. There will be plenty of flowers with notorious roses ball expected throughout the seasons.

With the amount of rain falling down from the sky at the moment, the horrible dreadful yucky Iberian Slugs are back into motion.
There was a time I forgotten to sprinkle some wood ash around the Iris patch, within days these slugs wiped out the entire row of iris down to the little stumps.

They even eat roses blooms from the low growing ground cover bushes.

This Arion lusitanicus Mabille (Stylomatophora: Arionidae) is very destructive to the garden plants.

Here you can see its already on the leaves of the rose bush. They are very clever at choosing the bushes with the least thorns to begin with.

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