Archive for the 'garden chat' Category

Fig Trees

Monday, July 19th, 2010

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

Bartram’s Garden

Monday, July 19th, 2010

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 [...]

2010 is under way!

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

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 [...]

Strange doings in Germantown!

Monday, November 16th, 2009

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. [...]

October Sunday

Monday, October 5th, 2009

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 [...]

La Bonne Maison

Monday, September 14th, 2009

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

It Rained Last Night

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

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, [...]

First Tomato of 2009

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

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 [...]

Fences

Monday, July 27th, 2009

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 [...]

Here’s a’other

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

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