Here is a perfect example of how I can feel like a total idiot in the garden.
My friend very lovingly gave me two broccoli plants. They shot up stalks and flowered, and now they look like this. Nothing like any broccoli I’ve seen. Broccoli should grow kind of like cabbage or cauliflower, kind of like this. Right? I’m really confused. I’m wondering if I have an unusual variety. Maybe they’re mutant. I’m becoming a little impatient but I’m going to wait it out and see what happens.
Categories: vegetables
Tagged: broccoli, garden, home garden, oregon, portland, troubleshooting, vegetable
Our neighbor passed away. I wondered if I could pull together an arrangement for the grieving family from just backyard flowers. The answer is… yes. Resoundingly yes. So many unexpected things are producing great flowers right now. Hosta. Broccoli. Yucca. Mostly stuff that I didn’t plant. When we moved in last November, I had no idea the blooms that these plants were going to display in the summer.
Our irises were disappointingly short-lived this past spring. It is nice to be able to use the speared, green leaves from bloomed-out irises as a height-giving element to this arrangement.
Categories: flowers
Tagged: arrangements, broccoli, columbine, eucalyptus, flowers, garden, hosta, iris
