JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

The first harvest has come. Crisp and fresh. Baby lettuce. You don’t need dressing. You don’t need a bowl with tongs to toss it. You can’t wait anyway. You pick a piece in your hand, soft and green. You stand in the sunshine, feet in the dirt, and taste the spring.

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Yesterday afternoon during “school time” the girls and I went out in the garden and planted the last round of seeds for a while: radish, carrot, cornflower, wildflower, sun flower, corn, beans and marigolds. I’m a bit suspect that some of these will grow – last year the birds came and got much of it […]

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to remember the peony blossoms that faded fast… Today I cut them off of the plant, since the petals were falling on the ground, wrinkled and melted, dishonouring the glory of the flower. As I threw the last one away, I held it to my nose. I felt the ruffled layers against my face. It […]

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my tree peony is blooming…I neglect it during the winter when it needs special protection and care, but somehow the plant grew one more blossom this spring for a total of four. The warm weather this weekend brought a sudden splendor of peony flowers bursting from the tight green buds. They are large as plates […]

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Also via Anita Rowland, I am enjoying a wonderful Northwest garden resource, filled with pages of photos and history describing the plants in the region. For example I had no idea that that pesky Scotch Broom was planted here intentionally A half-century ago when new highways then freeways were being carved up & down the […]

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