Though I still like to start with a recipe, I’ve definitely become a more freewheeling cook over the years. Current herbs in the garden: mint, tarragon, chives, basil, sage, thyme, oregano and rosemary. Most used: basil, thyme and oregano.
This week in the PerpJo: Epilobium canum, also known as California fuchsia, hummingbird trumpet and firechalice, is a species of willowherb in the evening primrose family (Onagraceae). It’s a low-growing, spreading, perennial sub-shrub with grey-green leaves that are velvety to the touch. and a profusion of bright scarlet flowers in late summer and autumn. It is native to dry slopes and chaparral of western North America, especially California. It’s doing well at our place, and I’m happy to see that it‘s now flowering.
We have two (different) armless statues in our garden. I’m guessing they represent Hindu deities, but they could have just been invented by some 20th century artist. Anyway, I like how the shadows look when the sun is bright.
I periodically buy whatever veggie seedlings are available at my local hardware store; this was yesterday’s haul. They’re all planted now; let’s see if they can grow faster than the snails can eat them!
Now I have Thin Lizzy on the brain.
Guess who just got back today?
Them wild-eyed bees that’d been away …
After May Grey, June Gloom, and a few weeks of No-Sky July, it’s amazing how the colours sing when the sun comes out.
The tomatoes are starting to ripen, so it’s time to multiply the basil!
Let’s root these suckers!
Looking up the hill towards the Bodie tree — white sage in centre stage.
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