Radish Surprise

...ey can get. This one got huge, then burst out into hundreds of tiny purple flowers. Hummingbirds, honey bees and all sorts of flying insects visit it all day, every day. It has become one of the queens of the garden. The picture below is horrible. The radish plant really is quite pretty, the equal of any ornamental flowering shrub–but as bad is the picture is, it gives you some scale. See the bales of our straw bale garden behind it? I think it mu...

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Japan Continued . . .

...Did we experience Sakura season? This is actually the Huntington Gardens in San Marino, a 20 minute drive from our house. And you should go now if you’re here in SoCal. The Chinese garden, in particular, is popping with flowers, calligraphy demos and live music. And there’s a newish historic building relocated from Japan that’s been meticulously restored and landscaped. This was the perfect way to ease ourselves back from vacation....

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Saturday Linkages: Sink Urinals!

...anhort/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=938 … Metro rips out Phantom Planter’s flowers at Dupont Circle station: http://wapo.st/14UF668 Pee talk Because guys need better ways to pee; sink-urinal saves water, encourages men to wash hands http://barfblog.com/2013/07/because-guys-need-better-ways-to-piss-sink-urinal-saves-water-encourages-men-to-wash-hands/ … Adding fuel to the fire The Exaggerated Benefits of Electric Cars http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013...

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Saturday Tweets: The Weather, Moletakers and More Cats

...e (@lowtechmagazine) September 21, 2017 We do feed our bees, but only with flowers. Their honey is their medicine #treatmentfree #beecentered #nocompromise https://t.co/Zgaytsa9gE pic.twitter.com/6sCEJkfPLK — Natural BK Trust (@NaturalBeeTrust) September 23, 2017 "Cans are vital, preserving & transporting flavors that might be impossible to find out of season or out of range." https://t.co/DuS1N7vM0K — Ernest Miller (@RLMProvisions) September 19,...

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Going to Seed

...en up all that anxiety, and I revel in this time. The insects feast on the flowers which bloom on our lettuce, our arugula, our radishes, our mustard, our fennel. Predatory wasps hunt alongside lady bugs and diligent bees of all types. We have more birds than ever in our yard, and they love our overgrown, browning beds, because of course they’re eating the seeds or the bugs on the ripening plants. They would not, however, allow me to take any pict...

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