Is it just me…
Or does anyone else think that sunflowers seem just a little more human than your typical flower…
Is she bowing to her partner? Or is she critically assessing the shovel’s shoes?
I am a Kansas girl and I love sunflowers. I can’t help it. If Dinosaurs came from birds… and people came for apes… [...]
I planted some sunflowers in a small corner of my garden. I did this because someone suggested it right here… on my blog.
I thought it was such a good idea. I bought a few packets of seeds… mammoth sunflowers, and red sunflowers, and ‘normal’ sunflowers… if there are ‘normal’ sunflowers. After I planted the [...]
As a part of this year’s garden, I planted a tomato test patch. I brought home several varieties of the tomato plants that we sell at the Garden Center where I work so that I could discover their differences and also so that next Spring, I might be able to actually answer a few tomato [...]
When I got home from our trip to Hell and back, I discovered ten thousand tomatoes ready to be picked in my garden.
My mom had done a great job of keeping up with the garden and everything else was picked clean, but in the few days interim between her departure from our house and our [...]
These are asparagus beans.
My father-in-law, Joe, has grown them for years, and he sent me some of his seeds in the Spring.
They frequently surpass a foot long, lengthening to eighteen inches and beyond.
I also grew some more traditional green beans, but the asparagus beans are half the effort and twice the food…
As they are so [...]
My garden may not serve as inspiration for garden art the way that Inga’s beautiful garden does, but I have been getting some beautiful vegetables out of it.
I have especially been getting loads of cucumbers out of my garden.
Thousands of them.
I can even pickle nine quarts of cucumbers only to discover a few days [...]
This garden project of mine would never have happened if Cynthia had not sent me an article and a photograph of a ‘colonial garden’ and mentioned that it would look perfect with my house. I may have planted a garden without Cynthia’s email and the accompanying article, but I don’t think I would have [...]
A few weeks ago I noticed that some daisies were emerging on the small hillside behind our house. I was both surprised and relieved to see them appear. Last Fall, B.J., a fellow member of my church mentioned that he was digging up a bunch of his daisies to make room for a water feature [...]
I really wanted to plant a pumpkin patch this year. I have long had a secret fantasy of owning a pumpkin farm, except that in my fantasy, there is no work involved. In my fantasy, I inherit a pumpkin farm that is planted and ready to harvest. Someone has already built a very cute farm [...]
The Harvest Moon Cone-flower is absolutely my favorite perennial.
Yup.
That’s the one.
No doubt about it.
Now what should we talk about?
Did I say the Harvest Moon Cone-flower?
What I meant to say was the Purple Cone-flower.
The same one that Hal used to make his tincture.
Oh!
Wait!
It’s Russian sage!
It’s Russian Sage!
Gosh I’m spacey today!
Russian Sage [...]