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Quote of the day:
“Nor will I then thy modest grace forget,
Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring,
And pensive monitor of fleeting years!”
~ William Wordsworth
Forage in March for:
Cleavers, Dandelion, Gorse flowers, Ground Elder, Hop shoots, Alexanders, Primroses, Wild Plum Blossom, Sweet Violets
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Tag Archives: Summer
Wordless Wednesday – Just because it is so grey and so soggy …
Posted in Flowers, Wordless
Tagged Annuals, Cosmos 'Double Click Cranberries', Cosmos 'Sensation' self seed, Gardening, Photography, Summer
6 Comments
August plants for August
I am joining Chloris at The Blooming Garden for this post of my top ten plants for August. However, I am not actually growing anything particularly unusual this year, so I guess that there will be some flowers in common … Continue reading
In a Vase on Monday – Seaside metaphors
I’ve been doing lots of activities firmly focussed on autumn: jam making, blackberrying, seed and leaf collecting, grass scarifying and I found myself wistfully thinking back to the summer that never really seemed to completely happen. So now I have … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers
Tagged Gardening, In a vase on Monday, Jerusalem artichokes, Monkshood, Seaside themes, Summer, symbolism
23 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Dry Meadows
Posted in Flowers, Wildflowers, Wordless
Tagged berkheya, Cambridge Botanical Gardens, dianthus, Dry gardens, Gardening, meadows, Photography, Summer
8 Comments
An embarrassment of courgettes? Bake cake!
A few years ago, after admiring a tasty, moist cake made by a friend, I became the proud owner of a courgette cake recipe. I promptly filed it and never thought about it again. This summer, at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Plants, Recipes, The home garden, Vegetables
Tagged abundance, cake, Cornwall, Courgettes, excess, gluten-free, lemons, Port Quinn, Summer
20 Comments
