This year’s flowers
We got a late start this year on our pots and baskets of herbs and flowers. But the front garden is a riot of colour.
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Herbs and Flowers
A few years ago I used to grow herbs in pots (pot herbs: perbs) and witter on about them at great length. Recently I decided to start growing things again, this time brightly-coloured and sweet-smelling to attract wildlife.
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It’s truly delicious weather here: seventies, sun, everything bright and blooming. The perbs are growing like Jack’s beanstalk. Yesterday we cut some…
Read moreSloth in the sun
The sun shone here in Seattle on Saturday. It hit the high 50s. To a Seattleite, that’s warm enough to sit outside…
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Well, I meant to write a meaty review of Superior for today but instead lost myself in watching the bees zuzz in…
Read moreGarden apocalypse
A couple of days ago I updated our garden/fence/privacy situation. I was feeling pleased with myself. Ha! Yesterday morning I was woken…
Read moreHoneysuckle and kadsura
A while ago our neighbours tore down some trees and left us no privacy to the west of the house. So we…
Read moreIntroducing the new perbs
Last year, I grew a bunch of herbs in pots on the back deck. I called them the perbs (as opposed to…
Read moreHerbs, kerbs, perbs, and honeysuckle
It’s a grey day here, a mizzle of drizzle. But the garden is lush. Next time the sun comes out, I’ll take…
Read moreSunshine and perbs
It’s going to be a beautiful day here in Seattle, warm and sunny, and like the rest of the population I’m going…
Read moreLift your face to the sun–and get beaten bloody
According to my calendar, this is what April looks like: Sun, scent of flowers, the zuzz of bumble bees, birdsong, blue skies……
Read moreLook! Real blossom! Growing things!
The other day, when I said The alders are doing that feathery thing, a couple of people asked what I meant. I…
Read moreLazarus kerbs
So after a near-death experience, followed by pruning (heavy-heart, firm hand*), it look as though our oregano, marjoram, and thyme might make…
Read moreKerbs and perbs and rock n roll
The Tragedy of the kerbs (kitchen herbs, grown hydroponically) is still a mystery. But we’ve taken radical steps. We cut all the…
Read more2010 in pictures: green and growing things
I got a bit obsessed with plant-based lifeforms this year: the trees in the ravine, the garden, the pot herbs on the…
Read morePerbs are dead, long live the kerbs
A picture taken yesterday morning: the torture tree has lost the last of its leaves. Winter is officially upon us. (Here‘s how…
Read moreThe Kingdom of the Spiders
Today’s my birthday. I should probably post something Deeply Meaningful but I find I’m not in the mood and because it’s my…
Read moreWet sunshine, dry mist
Here are photos from two morning this week. The first (taken by Kelley) is mist over the ravine, on what turned out…
Read moreFog and sun and Hild
Yesterday began draped in mist. I stood outside in my sweater, tea in one hand, and listened to the trees in the…
Read moreThis and that
It’s a grey day here in Seattle. In fact, it’s been so miserable, weather wise, that I decided to bring the basil…
Read moreGarden
As promised, a green-and-growing-things update. ( I use the terms ‘green’ and ‘growing’ loosely.) The heat is making differences apparent. The dill…
Read moreWhat are you reading?
It’s a lovely sunny day here. Perfect. Yesterday it rained. All day. Hard. Tomorrow it will be too hot. By the weekend…
Read moreTired but happy
I got back from Los Angeles on Sunday. It went well. Very well. I miss everyone already, all those brilliant, beautiful new…
Read morePerbs in the mist…
…except, eh, the mist evaporated by the time I got out there with the camera. But here’s the photo anyway–the dill is…
Read moreBeautiful things
A few days ago I read that an Italian scholar thinks he’s found a new Michelangelo sculpture–that is, rediscovered an old one….
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