I'll make ratatouille for dinner tonight.
August 2010
08/31/2010
08/28/2010
Amaranth
The Amaranth, the plant with the large red seed heads, self seeds every year and grows to eight or nine feet tall.
08/25/2010
106F
The Gardener picked the Queen Cox Apples yesterday. The tree is espaliered on a fence and the apples were cooking on the branch in our 106F temperatures.
Queen Cox Apples
08/24/2010
A Cool Summer
It reached 97F here yesterday, the warmest day we've had this year and only the third day the temperatures have topped 90F. Some plants like it but we've only harvested a few tomatoes and peppers and not a single eggplant.
Vitex
The Vitex (Chaste tree) would usually be covered with blossom at the end of August but it doesn't like these cool temperatures.
08/22/2010
Bees Love It
The Mound in One Corner of the Dry Garden
Honey bees love Caryopteris the beautiful blue-flowered shrub behind the ornamental Oregano.
08/17/2010
08/16/2010
The Dry Wash
The dry wash looks very much part of the landscape now plants have grown in.
Achillea (yarrow), Ornamental Oregano, Hypericum, and Blue-eyed Grass All Do Well With Little Water
08/12/2010
Dratted Blue Jays
The blue jays love the pears and often knock them off the tree when they peck them. They then see no reason to fly down to the ground but start on another pear.
The Gardener decided to pick the fruit and bring them indoors
Pears on the Kitchen Counter
08/07/2010
Does Anyone Recognize This View?
Probably everyone does. It's the view of the Opera House in Sydney. I photographed it from the Domain on a winter day in July.
I also took a photograph of these birds, exotic to me, but relatively common in Australia:
Ibis
08/05/2010
A Perfect Peach of a Day
Today a friend and I took a picnic to Quarryhill Gardens and then the Gardener and I picked some perfect peaches.
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