And
fingerling eggplants, I learned, are simply too small to work in a lot of
recipes. When you grill them, the ratio of skin to flesh is high. You
simply need more flesh to hold the fruit's sweetness. All the sweet peppers grill
up tasty, however, especially if you like some charring.
The
container-grown annual flowers, at least those I housed in big roomy
pots, flourished. I'm posting one here as the top photo. The violet blossom spikes are
on a flower called Angelonia, which I've bought once or twice before from
nurseries. This year I gave it a setting close to full sun (where the
property's old shed was crushed by winter snow, and removed by burly men), and
it flourished.The red flower spikes are the common red salvia, an annual that
keeps producing in late summer.
Some other
annuals that (one hopes) have the same lasting quality appear in these other
photos. The third photo down includes a dahlia annual with an attractive parti-colored
blossom, and the pink vinca annual that grows in a low bushy clump (unlike vinca
minor, which spreads all over).
Another
August flower pictured here (fourth photo down) is the blue-flowering buccaneer flower. It holds its blossoms
well in August temperatures and conditions.
A newcomer,
wholly inspired by a friend who grew a nine-foot Hollyhock in her garden this summer, is
this plant (seventh pic) I found in Home Depot.
I'm
sticking with the astronomical convention that calls these first weeks of September
part of "summer," that time of year when you can wake up in the
morning and it's not cold.
I sit here
with my windows open, and a beautiful breeze wafting in through the screens, and
a beautiful clear light, dry-air lighting up -- (and at the day's middle
overlighting) -- the colors and shapes of the natural world outdoors.
And I've
only had to listen to the landscapers' power machines for the last
hour... They're retreating now. I hear them a half block away and not directly
next door.
Power to
the people? No way, when it comes to gardening. It's power to the plants. And to
the sun. And to the rain.
And to the
life we share with all that lives and breathes.
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