Bloodroot and shooting stars emerging
Native double bloodroot and native shooting stars emerging.
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Garden log 4/18/24.
Garden log 4/18/24. Every year I think I should just give up on tulips, because they reduce here year to year, it’s not a good use of limited garden funds… …but then they come up, all straight and lollipoppy and charming, and I say oh, fine, I guess I’ll buy and plant some more in
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Garden log 4/18/24.
Garden log 4/18/24. Lady Jane clusiana tulips. I’m adoring the smaller species tulips — I’m still only on my second year with some of them, and first year with others, so I don’t know yet if they’re going to do better at coming back than regular tulips (most of which reduce year by year in
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Want to guess what I did with all these pistachios?
Shelled a whole bag of pistachios (with Eliana helping) on Tuesday. Want to guess what I did with them? (Answer in next post.)
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It has more of a witchy aesthetic
Tried just air-drying the hellebores, and they definitely come out a lot more wrinkly than if you use desiccant. Still pretty, though, in their own way. Feels like it has more of a witchy aesthetic, somehow. Will be curious to see how this tray / art piece comes out. It’ll have some dimensionality, since the
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I did very deliberately choose the redbud tree.
I was gathering some hellebore in the front yard, and some passing neighbors complimented the riot of color in the garden right now, and then asked if I’d picked the house colors. Yes, yes I did. And very deliberately chose the redbud tree to go in front of it. 🙂 Next week, filling those hanging
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It is a little hard leaving my garden in springtime.
I’m looking forward to the conference this weekend, but it is a little hard leaving my garden in springtime. Tulips opening, joining Jack Frost brunnera, native Virginia bluebells, blooming pulmonaria and lamium and ajuga groundcovers, the last of the hyacinths and muscari, leucojum and Thalia daffodils tall and white, camassia emerging. There are various plants
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Arrived at my parents’ house
Arrived at my parents’ house, spending a day here before conference in NY. Nice to be greeted with pittu and shrimp curry and eggplant and fried fish on arrival — thanks, Kanagalingam Mary! It was delicious!
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