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Fentiman’s rose lemonade is delicious
Kavi laughed when she saw me taking this pic, but c’mon, how could I resist? Also, Fentiman’s rose lemonade is delicious.
I garden in Oak Park, IL (zone 6a); I started working primarily with perennial successions, but am now branching out, after ten years, into more annuals and vegetables.
Perennial is a combination of breast cancer memoir and garden romance, a sweet little chapbook of about 14,000 words of fiction and a dozen autobiographical poems.
“Can I help you?” The woman in the front section of Devan McLeod’s garden shop had been wandering aimlessly about the store for a full twenty minutes. Usually he tried not to pester the customers; after eleven years in America, he still hadn’t dropped all of his more reserved habits; his Scottish father had been the strong, silent type. But his Indian mother came from shopkeeper roots, and he could just hear her scolding him now. Take care of your customers, son, and they’ll take care of you. He really ought to Skype them; it’d been too long.”
Kavi laughed when she saw me taking this pic, but c’mon, how could I resist? Also, Fentiman’s rose lemonade is delicious.
Native butterflyweed, just starting to open.
Pretty sure this is pale purple coneflower, echinacea pallida, another native. It’s very droopy. 🙂
Native annual fleabane. Not anything I planted, and it tends to spread a little aggressively, but it’s also easy to pull if it’s bugging you,
Mallows — zebrina is the striped one, and native purple poppy mallow / wine-cups is the solid. They both press beautifully; I’m curious to see
Feverfew. A volunteer in my garden, but one I’m always happy to see. This is a very long-lasting cut flower — it lasts for weeks