Salvia ‘Purple Majesty’
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...
Daffy About Daffodils
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 In the hopes of having something other than bare ground, and some spindly fruit trees to look at in the...
Tomato Harvest
The bulk of our heirloom tomato harvest is now in, albeit somewhat later than years past due in part to our own late planting, and cool summer temperatures. Despite the loss of ‘Big Orange’ this year to blossom end rot, and the mysterious disappearances...
Tenacious Tree Roots
Well, this weekend was actually remarkably productive. We finally had some cooler weekend weather, in the low 70s, which made working outside on a sun-exposed hillside much more pleasant. The first order of business was to start roughing in the main irrigation supply...
Run Rabbit Run
But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s garden and squeezed under the gate! With all the wildlife around here competing for our harvest, I’m thinking we should have called our place “Mr. McGregor’s Garden”. ...
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