Gone to Seed
June 18, 2009 @ 8:21 am | Filed under: Gardening
This virus has really knocked the stuffing out of me. We had to bail on almost all our planned activities this week, including (to my dismay), the extra Shakespeare rehearsals we’d planned. And I’ve ignored my garden dreadfully. All my herbs went to seed.
I would be sorry, but—
Who knew cilantro made such a lovely flowering plant?
That’s shot lettuce above it, the weedy yellow flowers.
Our nasturtiums have grown into huge bush-sized clumps, a tangle of red and yellow and orange flower cups that the bees are mad for. Sometimes the tangle of color happens on the petals of a single flower.
Elsewhere in the garden…
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Kay says:
Love the nasturtiums even the leaves are beautiful. I have to add them to our backyard garden. I’ve obsessed this year with lilliput zinnias. Inspired by Guliver’s Travels. Although we are still waiting for buds…PA weather doesn’t produce flowers from seed until later and we were slow in planting:)
Thanks for sharing the photos, glad you’re on the mend.
On June 18, 2009 at 9:25 am
sarah says:
Such great photos. I personally love weeds. I hope these pictures mean you’re starting to feel better and that soon you’ll bea box of birds once more.
On June 18, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Penny in VT says:
Last year I found out why they are called broccoli *florets*. A happy accident. As in the kids were happy because they didn’t have to eat the broccoli, and I enjoyed the flowers!
Nice photos, I’m a weed fan from waaaay back. 🙂
Hope you’re completely well soon!
On June 18, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Stephanie in AR says:
Cilantro gone to seed becomes corriander seeds. You & the girls will have a lot of fun finding ways to use them. But…most ripening corriander has a terrible odor, some varieties worse than others.
On June 24, 2009 at 7:35 am
KC says:
Did you remember to fertilize your silk (the corn)?
On June 25, 2009 at 4:53 pm