Yesterday I went to this great consignment shop with my sister and they had some amazing things like medical anomaly pictures and models of eyeballs and things like that. I took a picture of one that was amazing (it was behind glass, so I couldn't see the other pictures behind it, my hands were full with other things.) I've got that behind a cut by itself because it might be disturbing to someone else, but I'm fascinated with it. (Malformed unborn, for those who need to be warned.)
BIG SPACE FOR SCROLLERS
I also found a cool trilobite plaster that looked like it was from a classroom and loads of gorgeous barnacles. Check it - and after that are a bunch of pics from my garden.
For scale, here's a nice juice Pink Lady apple.
Barnacle cluster!
Close up!
The view from my porch, looking left:
From the right:
(I can't remember if I posted these already, sorry, if so)
Mama and baby bird!
The first peony (taken a few weeks ago)
Some of my lily stands:
I love these yellow ones. I have about 40 more that are just opening of this color alone.
My driveway veggie/flower bed:
1. Tiger lilies
2. striped Crinums, recently transplanted - these will get about 5 feet across
3. shallots & garlic, almost ready to have the leaves broken so they'll bulb up
4. blue agave - this should get massive. You can't tell but this bed is 6 feet across
5. onions, almost ready for their leaves to be broken so they'll bulb up, too
There are strawberries starting to spread every where as ground cover.
I am very ready for the weekend to be here.
BIG SPACE FOR SCROLLERS
I also found a cool trilobite plaster that looked like it was from a classroom and loads of gorgeous barnacles. Check it - and after that are a bunch of pics from my garden.
For scale, here's a nice juice Pink Lady apple.
Barnacle cluster!
Close up!
The view from my porch, looking left:
From the right:
(I can't remember if I posted these already, sorry, if so)
Mama and baby bird!
The first peony (taken a few weeks ago)
Some of my lily stands:
I love these yellow ones. I have about 40 more that are just opening of this color alone.
My driveway veggie/flower bed:
1. Tiger lilies
2. striped Crinums, recently transplanted - these will get about 5 feet across
3. shallots & garlic, almost ready to have the leaves broken so they'll bulb up
4. blue agave - this should get massive. You can't tell but this bed is 6 feet across
5. onions, almost ready for their leaves to be broken so they'll bulb up, too
There are strawberries starting to spread every where as ground cover.
I am very ready for the weekend to be here.
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Comments
Also there's some flowers or something behind the cut?
I have the feeling I've just told people far too much about what I actually spend time looking at online.
If you ever make it to Philadelphia, PA(and provided you haven't been), then you should go to the Mütter Museum. It's amazing!
But their collection of specimens are not only extensive, but brilliant. One woman leaned over to me and said "I would really hate to have my vagina on display for all of eternity like that unknown woman." heh
Your plants are beautiful, by the way.
And thank you for that compliment, too. :)
Also, shallots, garlic and onion planted with flowers? O_o
Err, why not? I don't want a dedicated veggie bed, so I slip them in among the flowers (it helps with pollination, too) so that I don't have "bare spaces" once I harvest. They don't hurt one another?
No, it's just that I've never actually seen anyone do it before. But it makes sense-the soil of a garden bed is undoubtedly looser than a regular garden, I would think. I've read that parsley enhances the scent of rosebushes but have no idea if that's true.
What I want most of all is my own veggie garden. Maybe berries and herbs too.
Those barnacle clusters were AMAZING. There were loads of them, too. I love stuff like that. (And thank you re: roses!)
I love the picture of the birds, they look so 'wha?'.