Some garden updates
The past week was busy. These pictures are a few days old – from June 5. I’d like to post from the same day, for a more immediate sense of sharing. But what happens...
Author: Catherine
Wonders of the world
We went to Connecticut for five days to visit family and friends. It was a trip full of memories – good ones and not-so-good ones. Interesting to notice what I remembered, what I never...
New
The Golden Houses are hung at the gallery. They look good! I had one valerian bloom in the driveway last year. Such a surprise. I don’t know how it got there. This year, I...
I found them
I heard about sweetfern flowers from a naturalist friend. She said the plants could be male, female, or both. We have a lot of sweetfern on our property, so I was on the lookout...
Shadbush, shadblow
This shrub makes my heart sing. I’ve been seeing a lot of it lately, the white blooms gleaming in the woods. Some things I know (or would like to know) about it:
Framed
These are all framed and wired for hanging. A big sense of accomplishment. The four below were bordered with cloth I bought in South Africa in 2019. Why were we in South Africa? A...
Around
I’m around, I just can’t seem to keep up. I’m trying to be careful with my priorities. Of course, trying to fit in a lot of planting and plant-tending time into an already full...