> This is the good stuff. If you get a stretch assignment at work, it’s going to push you to your limits and you’ll draw on energy and resources that…
> Seasonal flirtations
> Now THIS is a good story… When you drive down the mile-long hill into Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire in spring, you’ll be stunned by the mass planting of daffodils…
> I like tulips, but not THAT much…..
> Tulips from Amsterdam tralalaaaa
> Not everywhere, mind you. There’s a micro-climatic zone just south of Mainz that’s invariably a week or so ahead in the Vegetation Stakes and the locals milk it for…
> Not mine. Mine’s neatly trimmed. I think. (Confirmation required) This is Clematis vitalba, taken with an iPhone 3GS
> @ Odiles
> Not the Alphaville version Forever young, i want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever, forever forever Forever young, i want to be forever…
> At Odile’s Advent hoolie. If you listen to Monika Granereau, this cake of Aleppo soap will add years to your life and strip away decades of ageing, with the…
> About thyme it stopped snowing, if you ask me….. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
> Odile Landragin‘s events are a true joy. The best garden for miles around and just the nicest people, both visitors and helpers. (I tend to tag along to lower…
> Gave us great enjoyment until the ravages of time turned the blossoms into tight little balls of kapok and the shredder transported it to Plant Heaven aka the compost…
> ……put away your DDTI don’t care about spots on my apples,Leave me the birds and the bees – please. Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi, 1970 Heritage apples on display…
> Sibylle “Oh, go on – take my photo if you have to” Kallweit is one of Odile’s Busy Lizzies. She’s also an excellent photographer. Odile featured her at…
> Competition time! All entries on a $100 bill, please. Hint: coriander seeds
> I was lucky enough to get an electron microscope for my birthday the other week. Only weighs 3 tonnes and they have to throw some more uranium rods on…
> “Quite rightly” would say Donovan Leitch. Multicoloured Achillea millefolium blossoms (Common Yarrow or Schafgabe to you….) on the market. I was convinced that they put the stems in different…
> Might look like the Dutch fan block at the World Cup in South Africa, but on closer inspection, it turns out to be a mass planting of Tropaeolum or…
> Open Gardens Day in Gonsenheim last week and Stein’s Herb Nursery had all sorts of activities for littlies, one of which attracted some…er…not so little littlies. For example: the…
> That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet The Whitsun rose aka the Benedictine rose aka Paeonia officinalis. (There’s also the tree peony,…
> I reckon that the chances of garlic from China (and they really do sell the stuff here) being organic are about the same as my getting more than 4…
> …could be an appropriate post title for a Sunday, but we’ll have none of that around here, thank you very much. Only organics allowed. Lactuca sativa avanacluia, grown from…
> Grape hyacinths in a Frank the Potter pot
> Or something like that, anyway. Woodruff. Galium odoratum. Around here: Waldmeister or “Master of the woods” Use it VERY sparingly (moderately toxic to the liver and kidneys… hallo?) to…
> …ificently magnoliac. Edible petals, Leif. Honest…..
> …. something beginning with “R” RucolaRocketRauke (Aragula, too, but that’s only in flasher restaurants and then it costs twice as much. Same thing, though). The producers are holding their…
> ….lion Comes from the French “Dent-de-Lyon” – Lions’ Tooth – and if you look at the serrated leaf, you can see why. Around here, it’s called “Löwenzahn” Which is…
> Ornamental cherry (prunus avanacluia) at the top of its game outide the kitchen window. (And yes, the heart was MY idea. Yeah right…) Shameless commercialism: here’s my mate Wisely…
> There are experts. And then there are EXPERTS. Writ large. Odile Landragin and Sibylle Kallwei at the Oppenheim Plant Fair last Sunday, purveying all sorts of temptingly good…
> I had LOADS more photographs from Not the Nelson Daily Photo than I could have used before I had to come to terms with reality (and geography) and get…
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