The skies are dreary and grey again, and rain is imminent, but yesterday was a perfect spring day. The sun was shining, and our daffodils are starting to bloom. Last fall we were confronted with the newly denuded hillside that is to become the orchard. Not wishing to stare at bare dirt until the fruit [...]
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Salvia is the largest genus in the mint family, consisting of more than 900 species of plants, from culinary and medicinal herbs, to stunning garden flowers. The word Salvia comes from the Latin ’salvare’, meaning to heal or save. The leaves of Salvia’s are often aromatic, and features common to all Salvias include square stems, [...] I wandered lonely as a cloud, That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils ~ William Wordsworth Dutch Master Daffodils in Bloom In the hopes of having something other than bare ground, and some spindly fruit trees to look at in the orchard [...]  |
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