Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
I didn’t intend to pick these… they kind of picked themselves. When I tried to re-stake the tomato plants, these puppies peeled away from the main stem.
As it turns out, this plant that I thought was a Cherokee Purple tomato plant probably isn’t Cherokee Purple. They are however VERY dense and quite tasty. I hope these guys will ripen on the counter – I’ll be sad if I have to throw them away.
Commonly known as ‘Black and Blue’ Salvia, Salvia guaranitica is one of my favorite flowering plants. The color is striking, the leaves smell lovely (it is also known as Anise-scented Salvia), and it’s a hardy plant overall. When I lived in the low-desert of Arizona, my Salvia guaranitica was perennial and returned year after year. Now that I live in a more temperate area in Virginia, most likely I will have to depend on the plant reseeding itself.
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I have an obsession with William Morris designs. I find the botanicals so completely captivating, probably because of the organic yet stylized designs. Imagine my excitement when I found this. And this.
Paper sources is carrying the Victoria and Albert Museum aluminum bottles and vacuum flasks, as well as garden tools in both patterns. I’m not sure I can really justify purchasing one of the bottles, since I have about eight bazillion other reusable containers, but it’s nice to know that such cute things exist!
Nasturtiums are one of my most favorite plants. Easy to grow, pretty, and edible. You can’t really ask more than that!
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