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Hot or Cold
Rose of Sharon: Rose Chiffon Sunflower: Chianti (volunteer seedling no less!) Aren’t flower colours fun?
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Peaches
The Chinese associate them with immortality…as for me….I associate them with the poisoned fruit* of the first Mary Stewart novel about Merlin and King Arthur (‘The Crystal Cave’). They are wonderful,...
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Apple Trees
always have character. This MacIntosh isn’t that old (mid-1960’s); it is badly in need of a trim. But, photographs like this help to illuminate the overall shape and character that catches and holds...
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Cottage Garden
From year to year, and day to day, entirely different. The wild, random nature is part of their nature. It is, perhaps, their charm. The flowers are each, individual, a statement of purpose, a...
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Nice of it
That white Gladiolus, seen in the vegetable garden last year and this year chucked rather quickly into the big garden, has managed to bloom. Despite the late planting in heavy, soggy soil, several of...
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Nineteen!
Amaryllis, that is. All trundled in to the basement now, hopefully to dry out in a correct fashion and set flower buds. Last year our percentage was so-so. The year before all but one bloomed. Now,...
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I ought
to update my tree list at some point…. Despite the rather absurd weather swings, we have several new plants this year: a false hydrangea vine (still in its pot, I know) and a weeping Serbian Spruce are...
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I can still….
Drive a stick! I learned on one, of course, but with several years of no driving and then coming back and driving automatics for the most part for the last five years…. Summer went some where, but I...
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It might
rain….that would be nice. What would be nice is if it started off gently and watered in the plants that I put in the ground yesterday. I can’t claim prescience, I didn’t know it was going to rain, I...
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Complaint Dept Please
Snow? Really? Non-melting snow? Alright not that much, but really? (The passing squall didn’t melt in shady bits of lawn grass! On the other hand, this freeze has killed off the bits of the garden that...
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Green Rain
It seems we hit or went under 25 F last night (according to my notes that is the temperature which causes the Gingkos to drop). Sure enough, a steady leaf fall of very green leaves out there. It will...
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Thoughts on a day
The birds are having a ball: three types of sparrows, titmice, nuthatch, chickadee, juncos, woodpeckers, et al. working away on the dropped apples. Only the mourning doves don’t seem to care for them....
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Really!?
I was driving down through a decidedly suburban bit of Connecticut today (gah). And noting the lawns. With all their leaf piles: oak, pine, lawn clippings, some maple. Some finely chopped, some just...
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Study in curves
also known as today’s random photo, since while today was very busy it really isn’t blog fodder, so a random photo it is! You will note that a broken top really does not detract from the bottle’s...
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