In autumn I sowed a packet of Matucana sweet peas – a highly perfumed old fashioned variety bred in the 1920s. Continue reading “heirloom sweet peas”
Month: November 2016
still life
The roses in our garden are blooming abundantly, oblivious to the horrifying events taking place on the world stage. Continue reading “still life”
an old rose
In a garden the size of ours I probably can’t justify too many plants that flower only once a year for a few weeks. Unless it is as severely romantic as charles de mills, a gallica rose more than two centuries old. Continue reading “an old rose”
Fairy Tree
The blossom on our small bechtel crab apple is going off right now, turning the little tree into a frothy pink and white mass. Continue reading “Fairy Tree”