…and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me Serious seeds at the Oppenheim Garden Market yesterday
Some strange stuff turns up at our place, vaguely reminiscent of familiar blossoms, but “they’re new” and “not really that expensive..” Compared with a Ferrari, that is…
When Mum (born in the UK) moved from sub-tropical Auckland to temperate Nelson, she said “It’s great to have seasons again” I’d agree, but it doesn’t have to freeze overnight…
Isn’t it always the way that the herb (or “erb” for our colonial cousins) that you use least grows like a weed? Oregano officinalis. Pizza. Tick. Homemade tomato sauce. Tick.…
…to a blind horse Paeonia suffruticosa, this being the seedpod thereof.
The Schillerplatz’s mass-planting of Impatiens hawkeri aka New Guinea Impatiens – basically a Busy Lizzie with a college education
Bought 6 zucchini flowers on the market on Friday (€4, dip them in tempura batter, fry them in hot oil until they’re crisp, serve with pureed roasted red peppers) and…
…why don’t you Papaver and see the original? Appeared from nowhere (although we suspect that the seed came from Ms Frank the Potter’s garden) and started growing like Jack’s proverbial…
Confirmed by a forecast temperature of 34 Celcius (that’s about 150 degrees in old money)
The Alberton rose says so.
…nichts los. Moos (moss) – apart from Bryophyta above – derives an alternative meaning from a Yiddish word for money. So the idiom translates roughly to.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPnswWbulKQ
Choice blossom, even choicer seed pods
Pick your own pansies. Katrin Eder, responsible for environment, energy and transport in Mainz, comes up with some good ideas. Last year, they planted veges instead of the ubiquitous bedding…
…the yellow Avanacluias
Or is it “Iri”? Whatever. Roof garden at the top of Emmerich-Josef-Strasse. (Named after Prince-Elector and Archbishop Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim. Doubtlessly truncated to spare the city coffers…
I got up to 650, which matches historical evidence. Ober-Olm, a village about 10k from Mainz, dates back to the early Stone Age and finds in recent (i.e 1866…) years…
Mountain ash or rowan. Aka “Vogelbeere” = bird berry. (Avians eat the berries, don’t digest the seeds and deposit them on your car
If Gudrun Klag says it’s autumn, it’s autumn. She should know…..
The garden tends towards dull at this time of year and Anemone hupehensis (commonly known as the Chinese or Japanese anemone, thimbleweed, or windflower) is a welcome brightener. Two varieties…
The only pink I normally ever see is when I’m dragged into a fashion store. Thank goodness for sandstone….
Grasshopper, actually. They grow them big around here – this one was the size of a small dog. I kept out of the way in case it mistook me for…
Cress (Lepidium sativum), aka mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepper grass, pepperwort or poor person’s pepper. Line a flat dish with paper towels, saturate with water, sprinkle cress seeds…
…but at the moment I just seem to run out of thyme time…
I just hate throwing (useful) stuff out. You need to clip box hedges to keep them in shape and every clipping with some hardwood on it is a potential box…
A compost (pronounced “compohst” in Americanese) heap is a thing of true beauty. We have 3. One that’s active – sling in any organic matter from the kitchen, grass clippings,…
“Who’s there?” “Lilac” “Lilac who?” “Lilac anything if someone asks your age….”
Gudrun Klag is one of the flower ladies on the market in Mainz, selling bulk blossoms but also bound bunches. She has a consistent seasonal theme – Mainzer Frühling in…
Mainz Daily Photo 