Teaser Tuesday
by Leslie Cox; November 27, 2018
Still have some colour on my front porch!
Saxifraga fortune ‘Magenta’ only started blooming towards the end of September.
Love its late season of colour!
Quote of the Week
by Leslie Cox; November 25, 2018
Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn’t like to be ignored like this.
It doesn’t like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.
~ Beverley Nichols
Quote of the Week
by Leslie Cox; Sunday, November 11, 2018
“But the freedom that they fought for,
and the country grand they wrought for,
is their monument to-day, and for aye.”
~ Thomas Dunn English
Foto Friday
by Leslie Cox; Friday; November 9, 2018
A beautiful find on one of our Sadie walks – a violet webcap mushroom,
Cortinarius violaceus
New insect ID added
by Leslie Cox; Thursday, November 8, 2018
Picked some curly kale for drying in my dehydrator earlier this week. There are still lots of leaves on the plants for kale salads but I like to dry some for smoothies…just in case the plants are snow damaged, or it is simply too nasty to run out to the garden to pick fresh. Stored in a glass jar in my cool, dark pantry, the dried kale keeps well.
Back to the kale picking…well, you can just imagine what I discovered. Yup. Cabbage aphids or Brevicoryne brassicae in insect-speak. Yuck. What started out as a quick job of picking, washing, spinning and drying the leaves with a towel turned into a wee marathon as I gave those aphids the wash of their lives to dislodge them.
All of this extra work begged for a quiet sit in front of my computer with a cup of tea, once the dehydrator was filled and humming. Naturally, I just had to write about those cabbage aphids.
Check out the information about Brevicoryne brassicae in Insects We Have Found under In the Garden on the main menu bar. Or follow the quick link here.
