The book touches on the plant families that are important for agriculture and gardening in temperate zones, though it’ll touch on which ones have cross over into tropical zones. Since I do track the families of the flowers I’m labeling for Wayside Flowers, it’s interesting to me to see how the family relationships are classified […]
Temperate Garden Plant Families – Peter Goldblatt and John C. Manning Read More »
Here’s today’s project. The food forest attached to the community garden has two beautiful elder shrubs. I was out at around 8:00 this morning to beat the heat and humidity. I pulled off 18 heads, and you wouldn’t even know I was there. Making a sugar syrup was not my idea of the
I was so happy this book finally made it into paperback (I am one of those people that attempts to keep all her books in matching editions). The book is advertised as Matthew’s son Marcus’ story, which it is, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much of the current day continuation of Matthew and
Time’s Convert – Deborah Harkness Read More »
Caught the end of peony season at Gilsland, but the surprise feature of the walk was the wild sibling of sweet woodruff (Galium) that was running rampant through the fields, and perfuming the entire sanctuary with insane sweetness.
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This is an interesting little book – it’s about all the languages of Europe. It’s definitely a survey – the author chooses to highlight something interesting or quirky about each language, and you will definitely run into languages you’ve never heard of before. (I’ll admit, as an American, it’s actually kind of hard to grok
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