Tag Archives: fruit

Wordless Wednesday – Perfumed Golden Pomes

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Frogend_dweller

Posted in Wordless | Tagged #Growyourown, #GYO, Cydonia oblonga, fruit, Gardening, Harvest, Photography, Quince, Vranja | 10 Comments

Wordless Wednesday – Good Bones

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Frogend_dweller

Posted in fruit, Wimpole Hall, Wordless | Tagged Apples and Pears, Cordons, Espalier, Fans, fruit, Gardening, Horticulture, Photography, Pruning, Wimpole Estate | 12 Comments

Wordless Wednesday: Goji berries … January and still producing fruit

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Frogend_dweller

Posted in Food, fruit, Wordless | Tagged #GYO, fruit, Gardening, Goji berries, Grow-your-own, Lycium barbarum, Photography | 4 Comments

Wordless Wednesday – Alternative stories

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Frogend_dweller

Sometimes it is hard to choose which photo should be posted on Wednesday each week. Here is a small selection of unseen, alternative monthly stories for 2017 Wordless Wednesday posts:

Posted in Wordless | Tagged Bee Orchid, fruit, Gardening, Horticulture, Photography, red walnuts, seeds, Shirley poppies | 21 Comments

Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction … was not so tasty

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Frogend_dweller

I can’t remember how I came to have passion flower seeds (Passiflora caerulea) to sow, but inevitably I sowed them and a great many germinated. So then I had to decide what to do with them. I thought that a … Continue reading →

Posted in fruit, The home garden, Whimsy | Tagged Edible, fruit, Gardening, Passiflora caerulea, Passiflora edulis, Passionflower, Photography | 14 Comments

Wordless Wednesday – A still life full of quince

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Frogend_dweller

Posted in Art, fruit, Wordless | Tagged autumn, fruit, Gardening, Photography, Pomegranate, Quince, Still life, Walnuts | 17 Comments

Not Quite Strawberry Daifuku – with love

Posted on February 16, 2016 by Frogend_dweller

Last week, in a romantic gesture for the V day, I bought strawberries, which according to the label came from … Morocco. Oh dear. I do in fact have strawberry plants in flower in the garden, but only the pink-flowered … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, fruit, Plants, Recipes, Whimsy | Tagged aduki bean, chocolate, desserts, fruit, Glutinous rice flour, Ichigo Daifuku, Jam, japanese, Mochi, red bean paste, Strawberries, Strawberry mochi, Sweets, Valentine's day | 5 Comments

Wordless Wednesday: Need sunshine in December? Grow crab apples.

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Frogend_dweller

This vitamin C rich recipe made with rosehips sounds like a wonderful variant on the usual jelly: Rosehip and crab apple jelly

Posted in Food, Recipes, The home garden, Trees, Uncategorized, Wordless | Tagged crab apples, fruit, Gardening, jelly, John Downie, orange, Sunshine | 1 Comment

Wordless Wednesday – Medlars ….. I love you, rotten, delicious rottenness *

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Frogend_dweller

* D.H. Lawrence

Posted in Nature, Plants, Trees, Wordless | Tagged D.H. Lawrence, fruit, Gardening, Medlars, Mespilus germanica | 10 Comments

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Frogend_dweller

I go through phases of enjoying poetry, with very long gaps between, and that is how I’ve only just got round to reading the full poem ‘Ode to Autumn’ by John Keats. It seems to me to take us through … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Nature, Plants, Whimsy | Tagged autumn, Bees, crab apples, fruit, gourds, John Keats, malus, Mellow, Poetry, wood blewits | 7 Comments