The End & The Beginning November 17, 2009
It’s a sad truth: this was the last season I would be growing in the garden I’ve written about here on this blog for two years. I knew this and yet the thud of my heart falling to the ground as I began to rip out the plantings I had tended so diligently for the past two growing seasons still surprised me. I was very attached to my “Jardin de Jennie”. Here’s what it looked like at the end of its existence. The hard frost on November 5th had killed everything in the vegetable plot anyway so that wasn’t so difficult to rip out. It was the ornamental beds full of perennials and my three darling Metasequoia trees that made my shovel pause in its destruction.
Vegetable patch after the hard frost
All Gone!
Exploring Ambience November 12, 2009
My floral design class at the moment is all about exploring different design “ambiences”, or moods, really. The past two weeks have had very contrasting ambiences: exotic and natural. I much perfer the natural, but the exotic was fun to try.
Exotic Ambience
Natural Ambience (Floral Wall Tapestry)
On another note, the last of my own cut flowers ended this past week with our first hard frost on November 5th. I still had just a few bunches to sell at the farmers market that I managed to harvest just before the frost, but that was the last of them for this year. Time to start planning for next season and possibly growing cuts in a hoop house of my very own!
