How My Garden Grows
What Do Flowers Mean? Victorian Floral Symbolism
We often think of flowers for Valentine’s Day, but instead of relying on your local florist to choose an arrangement, why not try your hand at the Victorian art of sending secret messages via flowers? Flower Sentiments from the Victorian Era. Acacia, Yellow = Concealed Love Acanthus = Art Almond = Heedlessness Amaranth = Immortality [...]
A Victorian Window Flower-Box
A Window Flower-Box, From The Cottage Hearth, 1876 Given fresh mosses or leaves, a few trailing creepers and two or three spikes of flowers, and the effect will be charming in a window box made after any of the following descriptions. These methods are all cheap and feasible for securing the effect desired. The box [...]
A Fungus Was Among Us
R.I.P Sulphur Shelf Mushroom. You can see the rocks that the local trash children used to destroy this once fabulous sulphur shelf mushroom.
A Fungus Among Us
A bright orange fungus, growing along Creek Road in Upper Darby, PA. I really need a better camera, and a tripod would come in handy. I love macro photography. All I have at present is a dinky Kodak Easy Share. My found mushroom is the Sulphur Shelf Mushroom. I have been tempted to harvest it, [...]
Poison Hemlock?
I think that the mighty weed that I’ve allowed to grow may be poison hemlock…um…whoops. I thought it was interesting, it was growing so fast, a dainty giant. Now I have to think of a safe way to eliminate the thing. Geeze. Another pic under the fold…
