>As we near summer, the attendant pleasures of having a garden have been slowly accumulating – salads eaten fresh from the garden, flowers on the table (above: mock orange/philadelphus and Etoile de Hollande rose, a heavily perfumed climber and all-round floozy), and evenings scented by flowers. We’ve even been eating mulberries from our tree, and …
Author: Garden Correspondent
Gardener, mom, reader, and all round messy person.
>gingko
>We've lost three more birds. Well, two birds we killed to eat. Ali took two of the meat chickens over to the neighbours so that he could learn how to slaughter and clean them. He came back ages later with a chicken in a bag, all cleaned up and ready to eat. It was a …
>spider hand
>http://www.youtube.com/get_playerBaki saw some baby ducks at the market in Kumluca one day, and ever since then he has been slightly obsessed with having ducks. He's seen ducks at Sundance Camp -- he chases them everywhere, so it can't be described as a friendly relationship, exactly. While we were in Istanbul, he dropped it, naturally, since …
>5
>Well, it's official -- Baki is 5. While we were in Istanbul, I commuted out to the Black Sea town of Sile, about 1.5 hours from my house. Out there, we used to see storks around this time of year, and it would remind my friends that Baki's birthday was coming. Here, the signs of …
>how my garden grows
>It may be akin to professing to enjoy watching paint dry, but I think that what I love most about the garden is watching it grow. I see the plants every day, and there are tiny changes. A tree sprouts buds that unfurl into flowers or leaves, and the bare branches are gradually transformed; a …
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