‘How My Garden Grows’ Archives
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 may be made of zinc, [...]
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, but it's a little too close to the side of [...]
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... (more...)
