More Peter’s garden. Maybe. I hope.
Okay, we’re going to try this one more time. And then I’m going to go throw myself into the ocean* because of course it’s not going to work. Except that apparently it did work last time and I didn’t know it because it wasn’t working for me. I tried to post two more photos of Peter’s garden in–such cheek–one entry, plus a little text. I mean, really, what was I thinking of? What am I thinking of now? So last night I did this** and clicked ‘publish’ and . . . both photos and the text were sitting on top of one another. The photos were sort of run together and you could see edges of words sticking out like a fringe. Arrrrrgh. So I went back and forth for a while–behind the scenes it looked fine–and when nothing I did changed the way it looked live I deleted the beggar. And then got a message from jmeadows saying that a perfectly good post where nothing was sitting on anything else had disappeared while she was looking at it. . . . Whimper.
Okay, no we’re not going to try it again. The first photo appears to have loaded the way it should and maybe we’ll just put the second photo in its own entry. . . .
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* I think we had this conversation a few days ago. My standard self-immolation threat for many years was that I was going to throw myself into the ocean which, from Maine, Manhattan and Boston, had a certain ring to it. From inland Hampshire . . . not so much. But I’m getting very frustrated with the Photo Situation and I don’t want to use flickr! I want to click to robinmckinleysblog and see beautiful^ pictures of roses and gardens (and hellhounds) shining out at me!
^ Or possibly merely odd. See below. Or above. Or tomorrow.
** The text said that I wished to point out only slightly disgruntledly that all three of these photos of Peter’s garden are from the highest of high summer last year. This is a garden in full hurrah mode, not a late spring garden working up to it.
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The garden looks lovely, you’re getting the photos up Yeah! yay! and hurrah!, who cares how many entries it takes? We can read multiple entries and you can even count them as multiple entries, if you like…
By the way I am so envious that your gardens go in full bloom over summer. With temperatures rising here everything is slowly pulling back and whenever it can turning brown. I can look forward to the jasmine, some more hibiscus, the bougainvillea if it survives and the gardenia – if it decides to flower, which mostly it doesn’t. That is why so much greenery, because from here on, it really is too hot for anything else to flower.
I admit I would not like this. I like the flowers. I also myself wilt badly in hot weather. But I can’t quite forget the apricots.
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I’ll send you pictures of the apricots. If I could take a picture of the scent and the taste I would do that as well. Our strawberries, however, are slowly coming to an end. What I will look for next is melon and watermelon. I fancy me some aromatic prosciutto con melone.
Can you grow any of this yourself? Well, not watermelon on a balcony, I fancy (!). But a nice apricot tree in a big pot??
We do have an apricot tree. If flowers beautifully:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susan_from_athens/2450757238/in/set-72157604862192392/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susan_from_athens/2450758458/in/set-72157604862192392/
but we have only ever seen three fruit in over ten years. The birds peck them off when very young indeed. This is OK. because you need a decent root system for fruit trees. I do want to get a bergamot tree however, as it is virtually impossible to find the fruit in the market and you need to know someone with a tree and I do love my bergamots for cooking and for juice. We have our own olives (about enough for two people as a starter) and we harvest herbs and nasturtiums. The rest is purchased.
Oh, lovely! –My only understanding of bergamot is in Earl Grey tea. I didn’t know it was a *fruit.* There’s supposed now to be an olive tree that will actually produce olives in the British climate. Hmmmmm.
It looks like a cross between an orange and grapefruit (pale orange colour) and a large lemon in shape. But the scent is heavenly. You capture this by zesting enthusiastically and macerating the zest in sugar (for sweet stuff) or sea salt (for savoury). It makes for a lovely bergamontade or a chicken with mustard and bergamot respectively
It likes your weather, does it? that explains why I don’t see them in England.
I don’t know if it actually fruits, but there is an olive tree used in roadside plantings here. I am told it is a Russian olive, which would explain why it is happy in Minnesota.
Oh! Watch it carefully this year . . .
Well, I did get to see the cute 404 haiku, which made it worth it.
And about throwing yourself in the ocean. I think it’s a great threat, especially since you *are* inland. I mean, you’d have to drive all the way out there, and if by then you’re *still* upset and want to throw yourself in the ocean? That’s pretty serious! :D
But to be really serious you’d have to find an ocean – the channel so small we engkish call it just that – channel, and the french call it a “sleeve”. How can one be dramatic and then jump in a sleeve???
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A SLEEVE???? ROTFL!!!!! I LOVE THIS!!!!!
I grew up calling it La Manche in Normandy and the Channel in Sussex, so the humour only hit me when I imagined someone making a grand gesture, and it sounding as if they had found a very odd shaped puddle LOL
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/manche
Peter’s garden looks lovely. (Give me another 20 yrs and this garden just *might* …. *sigh*)
Have noticed something about this blog set up though. Sometimes when it loads the words are all over the pictures…. but if I hit “refresh” it reloads the page and it will be fine. Probably a wrinkle in WordPress somewhere… hmmmmm I thought it might be handy for you to know that even when it looks bad it doesn’t mean it always does/will etc.
Yes, they MOVE. That’s the thing I find the most disconcerting. Which means they can also move BACK once you’ve SORTED them. Whimper. But I’ll try refresh some time. Just for laughs.
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