Day 192: across the divide

On and on the garden grows, the sky continuing to irrigate the beds and borders so that the path requires pushing through at one point. Black and white meeting across the turf…

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Day 108: frozen sambuca

It’s disappointing to discover that, of all the ingredients essential to for a liqueur to be sold as Sambuca, the extract of elderflower (from the species Sambucus) is merely an optional inclusion…

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Day 85: growing with gusto

As gardeners, we spend an inordinate amount of time waiting for things we shove in the ground to grow away with gusto…

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Day 162: black elder

Having been writing only last week on Instagram about a blue rose that isn’t really blue, it did me the power of good just now to wander into a rain soaked garden and discover that the black elder was living up to its name…

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