Tagged “flowers”

The first summer in the garden really only started once we got back from a holiday thanks to the timing. We'd been to couple of flower shows, picked up a few plants here and there, bought a bunch of cheap 'garden ready plug plant' offers, and then basically went away for two weeks and hoped that we didn't get too much sun in the meanwhile to kill them off. I'd made sure to water them in well over the weeks leading up to that, though, so I was reasonably relaxed about it.

Before I carry on with the building of the garden, I thought I'd write a little bit about deuteropathy, or what's commonly referred to as being colour blind. Deuteropathy is only one form of many colour perception issues, but they're all basically down to defects in the cones in the retina of the eye. These cones detect red, green, and blue light and it's essentially a genetic disorder that can't be cured. If you have the gene that means your cones don't work properly (or at all, in some cases) then you're stuck with it for life.

I was diagnosed quite young - eight or nine years old, as memory serves. I remember my mother being called into school after I'd done the test with the numbers hidden in the dots (it's called the Ishihara test) and she sat next to me as we did the test again. They hadn't bothered to tell me what was going on - all I knew was that I'd been pulled out of my lesson to be in an office with my mother and I thought I was in trouble for something.