Repurposed containers make great vases for this week’s cut flowers.
Month: September 2022
Six on Saturday – 24SEP2022 – Garden Hello’s and Goodbye’s
A few last minute arrivals to the garden…
Six on Saturday – 17SEP2022 – last Weekend of Summer
We’re falling into a few weeks of warm days and cool nights. Falling…get it?
Seed Collecting Time
Eager and organized gardeners have been collecting seeds for months now, saving pods and capsules from bulbs, perennials, annuals and bulbs as they ripened, or letting them get mushy (tomatoes) or go to seed without deadheading (lupins, alliums) to collect seeds. Other gardeners (ie me) forget, can’t be bothered, procrastinate until it’s too late, or, […]
A Few Fading (cone)Flowers
Echinacea do not go gentle into that good night.They fade, thinking perhaps their petals are tree leaves. Maples? Oaks? Shades of pink, orange, tired looking old looking purple…before crinkly brittle brown edges appear, spread, engulf…fall.
In a Vase, on Monday – Pink and Orange
Bright pink and fluorescent orange are the non-complimentary colours in today’s vase of cut flowers.