American Tradition

Penstemons n other stuff My penstemon bed is blooming... penstemon australis My penstemon australis isn't as happy in the garden as the naturals are out in the unimproved sand... what's that about? smooth penstemon Not sure whether this wild collected plant is penstemon digitalis or penstemon laevigatus... more... - 2013/05/21

Long time no blogging Forgot to write in my blog....busy, I guess.... The garden is nearly planted....just a few more seeds and plants to put in ----now, that is the vegetable garden.....the other gardens are patiently waiting arrival of their annual plants.... Last night, around midnight, we had beautiful rain....it wok more... - 2013/05/21

Henri De Regnier walks in a Spring garden of long ago... A flower meditation excerpt Henri De Regnier In the woods you will find lungwort, with its violet and wine-coloured flower, the leaves verdigris, spotted with white, hairy an very rough; there is a holy legend about it. The lady's smock to which the the saffron butterfly comes; the light crowfoot an more... - 2013/05/21

a torrent of pink wind said Princess Haiku This beautiful poppy bloomed and was torn apart by strong winds an hour. -The vulnerability of delicate beauty. HTTP Request Header * POST /rpc/ping HTTP/1.0 * User-Agent: YOUR AGENT HERE * Host: rpc.technorati.com * Content-Type: text/xml http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping * Content-length: 250 ht more... - 2013/05/21

Aphrodite lost in a flower, said Princess Haiku to Aphrodite of the flowers "leave Krete and come to this holy temple where the graceful grove of apple trees circles an altar smoking with frankincense" HTTP Request Header * POST /rpc/ping HTTP/1.0 * User-Agent: YOUR AGENT HERE * Host: rpc.technorati.com * Content-Type: text/xml http://rpc.techno more... - 2013/05/20

Glorious weather and veg planting Finally! Today the weather has been glorious and apparently it's set to stay fine for a few days - yay! It was even hot enough today to warrant sunscreen, but then there was that sad moment when I was applying it and the smell took me back to our recent holiday to Jamaica - has that ever happened to more... - 2013/05/20