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From the Garden
My experience has been that the Dutch do not cut and gather from their gardens the blossoms growing there. Suggest as I might that the enjoyment is prolonged. it doesn’t happen. These stems are a bit more than a yard in length. What happens when beautiful, strong iris, can not support themselves in an upright …
Hood Ornament
The Season Finale
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December through May
The Season of the Tulip. I pay cash for each bunch of 10 stems and if it’s a choice between food or flowers the tulip takes the cake every time. The season is waning, the peony is being offered in place of the many tulip varieties. As an ode to the my FAVORITE flower, a …
Potayto, potahto
The salt-sea-air, the knights templar, the bay-windows-of-Valletta, winding rock walls, grass-trod-by every-colonizing-warfaring-power over centuries; was all this to taste in the Malta Potato? No, unfortunately. The potato was the juiciest I have ever cut into and was patterned – reminding me of white-on-white-silk fabric. Whether boiled in water on the stove top or roasted in …