Friday, August 22, 2008

more blooms


This whiskey barrel full of portulaca is one of the only containers I planted this year. I will always plant portulaca because it reminds me of my dad. He would talk "double talk" and one of his characters was a person named "Fortulaca". I didn't even know they were flowers until I moved west. In 1974. Yikes. (They call them Moss Rose here, btw.)

'chokes



One of these years, I'll grow enough artichokes that I can eat a few of them. Right now, I just can't resist letting them flower...