A little while back, the amazing Celi at the Kitchen's Garden wrote this post about what's what in her garden. And in her typically generous manner, she invited us to show her what we her readers are up to. It's not all that grand and I shot these with my iPod because I hadn't found …
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May flowers
While the rose petal elixir is maturing, here's a peek at a few other things happening in the garden. The climbing rose next to the greenhouse is starting to bloom. It's a relatively recent arrival, so it is not the spectacle that the red rose is, but I love the flowers- they look like petticoats. …
Roses you can drink
The roses growing on the side of the house are the most fragrant ones we could find (Etoile de Hollande is the name of the variety) and let me tell you, they are real floozies. They flop open and let out a scent that could hypnotize you. They smell good enough to eat, but when …
Roses and a recipe
Spring is wonderful because it is full of flowers that are brave enough to push up and bare their faces to the chilly days. They dare us to forget the dark winter months, and how could we not in the company of daffodils? Some flowers, though, wait until the season is well underway, even turning …
From our bookshelf
We have a lot to learn still, and we tend to learn things the hard way (i.e. through failure and crushing disappointment), but there are a lot of books that have helped us along the way. I thought I'd write about a few if them once in a while. Gardening When it Counts is a …
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