Tag: seed collecting

  • Before returning to Italy, let’s review last winter…

    Before returning to Italy, let’s review last winter…

    About last winter, well, it was divine. Between the fair weather, a class in horticulture, and time spent with friends over long meals, it was a time to indulge in additional personal growth and discovery while lingering to get to know those around me better. What I mean to say here is that my new…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Regrowing Backbone

    Dianthus superbus. Cow Parsnip, Heracleum maximum. Cow Parsnip, Heracleum maximum, as “whisk”. Stylophorum lasiocarpum. Campanula punctata. The willow arbor gets a serious makeover. Where’s the fire? Smoke tree, Cotinus, with Lychnis coronaria. Centaurea montana. Yucca filamentosa. Still working on the backbone of the garden.