Garden Party

Sweetheart and I just returned from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s amazing annual plant sale with this little red wagon load of delectable goodies for the backyard! Early Girls and Kirby Cukes, Packman Broccoli and Medusa Peppers, Rosemary, Thyme, and Lavande de Provence… like all gardeners at the beginning of the season, out wagon brims almost more with hope than with bounty. Luckily my ever-lovin-horticultural Mama is coming next week for any course correction if we city mice have bitten off more strawberries than we can chew.

ps. I always love the Botanic Garden, every time you go it’s different depending on the weather and the season. Today, the bluebell wood was in bloom. After last night’s hard rain, the trees were silent except for the occasional drop of water and the flowers were like a quiet sea. It was truly beautiful.

Author: loiseaufait

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6 thoughts on “Garden Party”

myschoolhouserocks says:

May 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm

Looks good! I just planted some myself here in Toronto.

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1. loiseaufait says:
  
  May 3, 2012 at 5:59 pm
  
  Are you having an unseasonably chilly spring too? I’m nervous for my little ‘maters! Good luck with your garden…
  
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  1. myschoolhouserocks says:
    
    May 3, 2012 at 6:03 pm
    
    not unseasonably chilly, just unseasonal. We barely had any snow and now we’ve had warm days followed by frosty ones. I have herbs in pots and have left them out the last two nights but now we are to get thunderstorms and heavy rain tonight and a high of 23 degrees c tomorrow so who knows?
domesticateddilettante says:

May 3, 2012 at 6:34 pm

Love the BBG, but I live too far to slip in for a plant sale. However, the shot of the bluebells is almost enough to make me hop on the next NY-bound plane! Thanks for sharing!

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1. loiseaufait says:
  
  May 4, 2012 at 11:27 am
  
  The BBG is marvelous- but oh what we wouldn’t give to have your space (your garden AND blog are lovely)! Maybe we should have some sort of exchange program- you come and ogle the BBG bonsai garden and we’ll ooh and ahh at a garden plot bigger than a fire escape? Thanks for stopping by…
  
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  1. domesticateddilettante says:
    
    May 4, 2012 at 12:27 pm
    
    If I could make it happen, I would jump all over that deal. Thanks for the kind words! The” gardens” this year are definitely a work in progress. I snapped pics of the beds with their edging and mulching in place and posted them on my facebook page. I guess no garden is ever really finished but I’m feeling the “rawness” of starting from scratch. It’s both fun and frustrating. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
    
    Best,
    Terry