gardens

Just after the last post I stopped at Whole Foods in Philadelphia and they are selling Fig Trees! Gotta get one!

Went to Bartram’s Garden. Very hot but a nice breeze, took two tours, one of the grounds and one of the house. I didn’t know Fig trees would grow in Philadelphia!. Born in 1699, John Bartram became America’s first great botanist and with his son William identified and cultivated over 200 new plant species. In [...]

Well, the holidays are over and school has started. My first classes were yesterday. Right now I’m headed to VA to my Mom’s to dedecorate her house and to celebrate her birthday! My decorations at home are down except for greens around the door but it has been too cold to deal with that. This [...]

I live in a fairly urban area. Granted there are yards with lots of trees and gardens and it is about 3 blocks to a large park along a busy bus route, but it is in the City of Philadelphia and the usual wild life we get are stray cats and a possum or two. [...]

Yesterday was a very nice day. Beautiful fall day. Worked in the garden, nice lunch, read a little, carded some wool, dinner with music and later, a little TV. Lazy and very relaxing. Today was also beautiful but not so relaxing—back to work. I did get to update the image at the top of the [...]

Some images of our tour of La Bonne Maison. Madam Masquelier and Heather and Roses more images . . .

Late Summer Rose in the Rain Bob grows lots of roses and this is one of my favorites, Frederic Mistral. It is named after the French Nobel Laureate, Fredric Mistral, (1830-1890), whose collections began The Museon Arlaten, a wonderful ethnographic museum in Arles. The year I visited that museum I also visited La Bonne Maison, [...]

I know there are all sorts of considerations in growing tomatoes but one of our major worries is to beat the squirrels to them. Many times we watch and watch as the tomato ripens and then go out to pick it only to see a big chunk eaten away. Guess we aren’t the only ones [...]

I live in a community of gardens. Most of the houses are Victorian and many have iron fences around their yards with iron gates. This spring I took pictures of many of the styles of fences—there are many more—and thought I’d share some here. Open gate and Classic Hair Pin Fence Asymmetrical Gate and and [...]

This one guards my front door under some hosta. He looks sort of determined.