A new bed
We took another nice, long road trip up to Tivoli on Saturday, primarily to buy burritos from the side of the road (more about that later...).
On the way, we passed a stand selling organic flowers, and I asked Tim to pull over. That he is the sort of man who will gladly turn the car around and pull over so that I can buy some flowers is a constant source of surprise and gratitude for me. Just saying.
Anyway, part of my almost daily routine, as you may have caught on, is to walk around our yard and cut whatever looks good and make little arrangements for the house. At times it's easy-that one week of peonies; when the daisies and coneflowers are going; even into the fall with thyme and lavender-but the truth is, it's sort of slim pickin's around here, bloom-wise.
So, yesterday, Tim found a heretofore neglected patch of our small lot, and dug it out to make a bed for cutting-flowers.
As usual he had a little help.
He says it will take a year or two to really be "productive". In the meantime, I'll keep using what we have. And he'll keep pulling the car around when I spot something good on the side of the road.
More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
tt
Labels: gardening, green grass of home, Road Trips, Tara
posted by Tara Thayer at
8:58 AM
6 Comments:
What a wonderful idea. I'm sure I've got some patches of yard to till and cultivate. Thanks so much for the inspiration
to think i thought the title "a new bed meant it was going to be a post about ikea" this is of course much better than that, but now i want meatballs...
oh....that is a fine fine fine man. a cutting bed. I need one of those.
Beautiful! I don't quite trust my garden enough to cut the flowers (I know, that says something about me and my lack of faith in the universe to provide, which is exactly the opposite of what I claim to believe... sigh). I'm dreaming of a big cutting garden. In the meantime, why do I have fewer blooms this year than last?
I want a cutting garden, too! I never thought of doing that! I look forward to watching yours develop.
I shall be interested in hearing what goes into your new bed - I too, have thought a cutting garden would be a good thing. I wonder if you could plant tulip bulbs in the fall?
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