tim walkers vivienne westwood.
when i was a kid growing up, everything in our house was green, orange and yellow. i liked to call it peas, carrots & corn just like the little vegetable nibblets youd find in a frozen tv dinner on a friday night, when youre parents would leave you home with the babysitter. im seeing a lot of it all over again major flashback time!
Mud season is over and your soil is finally drying out, and you’re contemplating adding soil amendments to your vegetable bed or mulch to your ornamental beds. The question is: how much do you need? Probably more than you think. To get an even remotely accurate answer, you will need a tape measure. I like to use one similar to the one pictured on the left for this kind of task. Measure the length and the width of your bed. Write that down. Then you need to come up with a rough idea of how much amendment will achieve your goals. F
If you are in San Francisco Bay Area, please stop by the Creators For Japan fund-raising event this weekend, Saturday April 30th & Sunday May 1st at New People. There will be lots of beautiful and heartfelt handmade arts and crafts, as well as baked goods, with 100% of proceeds will be donated to Artists Help Japan Fund with Mercy Corps. Japan still needs our support, and Creators For Japans goal is to raise money through art and crafts sale for relief efforts to assist the victims of Japan’s catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear emissions. Yo
For Wildflower Wednesday, I try to feature a native plant growing wild on our property. I took a walk on Monday to see what was blooming, and found only one plant blooming, a shrub which looked to me like a pussy willow. I looked through my books and discovered that’s exactly what it was: Salix discolor, the pussy willow. This surprised me a little bit, because I thought those decorative pussy willows sold everywhere in late winter were of European origin. A
todays it list is venturing into the colorful world of artist lisa congdon. just about everything in lisas world is bold and bright from her beautiful artwork, to the way she lives her life whether shes putting out a new book, making art for a show, riding her bike around town, to cooking up a vegan feast with her girl clay, im constantly in awe as to how lisa fits so much joie de vivre into one day. this is one very happy it list.
“I am all about clean colorful styles these days. And the brighter and bolder the color, the better! I
This slow, cold, cloudy spring is sorely trying my patience. It’s taking forever for anything to bloom. But then, looking over past GBBD posts, it’s really not that far behind other springs. It’s just that last year, spring came earlier than usual. Somehow that became the new normal, just like that. How soon we forget.
The Crocus Bank was robbed of its glory by the erratic weather. The first flush of crocuses were knocked back by several days of snow and lows in the teens, and they were completely gone by the time the later crocuses got going. It is the overlap of many species that usually makes the Crocus Bank so resplendent.
