And in the bucket where my mini crop of potatoes once grew, a wonderfully gnarly growth of nasturtium. No blooms quite yet, but I’m waiting.
Posts Tagged ‘plants’
new crops
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged colors, indoor gardening, Inspiration, nasturtium, nature, Photography, plants on January 12, 2015| 1 Comment »
winter growth
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged colors, cress, food, food photography, gardening, herbs, indoor gardening, Inspiration, microgreens, nature, Photography, plants, simplicity on December 29, 2014| 2 Comments »
The instructions say to plant seeds in a shallow dish and move as needed for best light. Instructions I can follow! Not sure how I’m going to serve up this first little harvest. Maybe with slices of avocado and tomatoes on toasted bread rubbed with garlic. Theoretically, this cress is a spicy herb. We shall see. I’m not sure that I grow enough at a time to benefit from the nutritional value, but the simple act of planting a few seeds in a bit of dirt and watching the sprouts rise in the sun, that’s worth the effort alone.
oregano in the hallway and …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, tagged african violet, beauty, colors, food, herbs, indoor gardening, Inspiration, musings, oregano, Photography, plants, textures on December 15, 2014| 3 Comments »
Some folks think I yearn for a big field to garden, but I don’t. I enjoy my few clay pots and random mugs filled with dirt, tucked in all sorts of corners and moved about as my whim and the sun does strike.
It has been fun this year to grow flowers, herbs and the occasional vegetable. The trailing green growth and splashes of color have been inspiring, as well as occasionally quite tasty. Most of the herbs have died back or faded away completely with a few exceptions like the oregano.
I planted a few new seeds on Saturday. Spicy cress, fenugreek and more nasturtium. The fenugreek has already started to sprout. Perhaps I’ll be able to harvest it for Christmas. On Sunday I picked up some paperwhite bulbs with a goal to plant them in January and perhaps soon after photograph white winter blooms against a backdrop of falling snow. Until then, I have these herbs and, oh yes, that violet.
it must be part of the creative journey
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged african violets, beauty, colors, indoor gardening, Inspiration, nature, Photography, plants on December 14, 2014| 4 Comments »
It better be, to crawl around on the kitchen floor, photographing the undersides of African violets. It is certainly a pleasure to look up at what is so rarely seen. There are two plants, both needing to be repotted. A winter task I am looking forward to doing and then I hope to tuck the plants away into a warm winter spot where I won’t mess with them so much. One I’m definitely watering too much but the other has new buds forming. Perhaps it is of hardier stock. We’ll see …
the underside of the african violet leaf
Posted in Inspiration, tagged african violets, beauty, branching, colors, indoor gardening, Inspiration, leaves, perspective, Photography, plants on December 4, 2014| 1 Comment »
beautiful blossoms
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged blossoms, colors, flowers, food, indoor gardening, Inspiration, Photography, plants on October 17, 2014| 1 Comment »
potato blossom
You’d almost think it was spring where I am, there are that many blossoms in the kitchen.
nasturtium bloom
red pepper flower
potato plant 2
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, food, green, growing, harvests, indoor gardening, Inspiration, light, Photography, plants, potatoes on October 12, 2014| 3 Comments »
another fallen leaf
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged colors, indoor gardening, Inspiration, leaves, nature, orchids, Photography, plants on August 14, 2014| 5 Comments »
fallen leaves and blossoms
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged blossoms, colors, indoor gardening, Inspiration, leaves, nature, orchids, Photography, plants, textures on August 6, 2014| 3 Comments »
As I was racing around this morning, I realized that one of the orchid plants had dropped two leaves while the second plant had dropped a leaf as well. New leaves grew on both so they still hang on but I suspect I’ve been too free with the watering pail.
As I gathered the leaves I could not help but notice the lovely colors and textures of their dying flesh.
And then I remembered that when their blossoms had fallen earlier in the summer, I’d collected them in a small dish to see what might happen to the petals over time. Out of sight, out of mind … but I found the dish and this is what the petals look like.
the aloe in the hallway
Posted in Inspiration, tagged abstract, aloe vera, black and white, form, indoor gardening, Inspiration, Photography, plants on August 5, 2014| 2 Comments »
