frozen begonia

toronto winter garden

lazy palms

still life

tomatoe and one of its cousins deadly nightshade.

valley lilly, iris

sunflower tree

 

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seedaholic--leaf celery

seedaholic, that internet site devoted to garden seeds. found it while doing an image search for celery vases. a picture of a garden with text mentioning leaf celery came up with all the images of the vases.

leaf celery being the third type of celery. the other two being the well known stem and globe ( celeriac ) celerys.

seedaholic is devoted to unusual and rare seeds, like cutting leaf celery. the online catalog lists the seeds and other gardening items they sell.

leaf celery can be used in all those recipes that the herbs parsley and cilantro have monopolized for a long time.

but the question must be does it taste as delicious as the few blanched leaves one finds at the heart of stem celery.

 

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toronto gardens--allotment gardens

classical combination of two crops of the euroese cultures found growing outside of the allotment gardens at he south end of leslie street.

lilac days

 

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pigeon of the week

pineal cone

goethe--urpflanze

that poem goethe wrote to preface his essay on the similarity of plant formz.

pigweed and mallow

pig and mallow weeds sharing a piece of concrete on the construction grounds of another condominium.

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fungi and thistle

 

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tulip pods and buttercups

persian buttercups and turkic tulip pods from late spring of 2016.

 

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iris season 2016

 

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allan garden--window garden

a self sown seedling of an unidentified tropical plant growing on a window ledge at the allan gardens green house.

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allan conservatory house hours

second week of 2016 first visit of the new year to the allan gardens green house, open house seven days a week 10am to 5pm.

canada will soon be in march-bloom, people will be out in their suit jackets and skirts digging and manureing the gardens of dominion.

plants were not at their best. worst of all, the petals on the flowers of the amaryllis display in the orchid house were wilted and in the temperate room some one thought wiring a flock of artificial birds on some of the plants would make up for the quality of the greeneries.

Some things stood out better. the single prayer orange in fruit, with one of those birds perched near it and one flowerless amaryllis in a bulb shaped pot set on the coping stone of the wall by the water fall made up for the over all end of winter in a conservatory doldrums.

 

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window garden--febuary geranium

 

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christmass calendula

 

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