Salad tonight!

Today's harvest: some lettuce and whatever that spiky, spicy, lettuce-y stuff is. Also some Calendula flowers, which I have floating in water on the table. A present for Myra.

The Other Parts of the Garden

One spends a certain amount of time picking up litter in the urban garden. It's just a fact of life. That's what I did most of my garden time today, in fact. But it brought me into parts of the communal space I don't always visit, which was nice. Fruit trees line the east and north borders. In between them, many things thrive. Here is a Euphorbia (my favorite here in the Pacific North West) with its early, yellow green blossoms. It's probably 4 feet tall and 5 across. It's everywhere. I'm sure people find it common as the day is long, but I am in love.
And this ancient Rosemary caught my attention; its sprigs crowned with delicate, cornflower blue blossoms. Also maybe 4 feet tall.

Crocus?

I know, right? But do you see the tender shoots reaching for the new day? I think, I'm not sure, but I think: These are the first Crocus of the new year. This photo was taken today, just this afternoon, at my P-Patch in Greg's Garden in Ballard, right behind the Safeway. It was a beautiful day to garden. Beautiful, but cold.

The Patch 2008

Howdy! Let's do some garden blogging in 2008. Here's a pic of the clover (I know, same old same old). Hey! Right now we are soil building, and there isn't much to look at but clover....