On the Subject of Flowering Vegetables and Fruits

I have a raised bed in the back yard for vegetables.  Last year it was mostly lettuces, and this year it’s all tomatoes and corn.  While I was gone this summer tons of arugula (the most resilient of lettuces and lettuce-like plants?) sprouted up in the bed amongst the tomatoes and corn.  By the time [...]

Paris

I can’t tell you how happy I am to be here.  Even though it’s late in the three o’clock hour and I have a 5:30 wake-up call for a early high-speed train to Marseille.  With all the passport drama I began to lose faith that I’d never get here.
I love love love Paris.  We are [...]

My new vase and some roses from my garden

Roses from my garden (they smell like sweet rose and lemon), white astrantia, and variegated pittosporum in my new vase from Tail of the Yak, Berkeley

I love the backs of these–the white petals with the green tips

Guest Room Flowers

Roses from my garden

for a friend’s birthday

Flower of the Day: Bearded Iris

I’ll never get tired of a single bloom in an old Hendrick’s bottle

Nothing could be more fitting for an Ikebana basket than bearded iris

A Thank You Bouquet for a Friend

Peonies, Graham Thomas garden roses, and wisteria leaves

My Favorite Arrangement from Last Week’s Celebration

Garden roses, peonies, white lilac, honey suckle.  By Bloomies.

A Little Taste

I mentioned I threw a big bash this weekend–here is just a little taste of what it was like.

The hors d’oeuvres table (from left): pasteles (also known as pastelitos) and red cabbage slaw, sweet corn tamales and cream, sweet plantain empanadas.  Pasteles are fried pockets of dough (in this case the dough is corn meal-based) [...]

Lilac, snowball viburnum, violet and green tulips