a garden grows on booker street
my garden has been flourishing these last few weeks. we've finally started to overcome the rain deficit and the weather has been lovely and mild. spring time in the 'ville is truly gorgeous, when it sticks around for a while. as a result of the last month's climatic perfection, most of my garden glories have emerged from their winter slumbers. thought i would give you an update on what's growin' on.
i uprooted a number of poorly-located rose bushes in the fall of 2005. all but one weathered the disruption of the transplant ahd the winter, and of those, only one is not in bud. i currently have a gorgeous salmony-pink tea rose in bloom. it looks alot like this one called leaping salmon.
i have an amazing white rose - not sure what variety - that is covered, absolutely covered, in blooms. the blooms are unlike tea roses, which are the classic roses, in that they are very loose and amorphous. the petals have little or no strength in them, so when fully open they are very droopy. it's obviously an old garden variety like this one, called frau karl drushki.
i have been transplanting a number of wee clematis paniculata vines along our chain link fence. as you long-time readers may recall, my garden is a veritable oasis of this wild clematis variety. the transplanting and training along the fence worked wonders last summer and fall for concealing the ugly chain links in clouds of green tendrils and thousands of tiny white stars. just like this!
my elephant ears have multiplied (naughty elephants!) and they are slowly emerging from the mulch and unfurling their enormous leaves. i have tried to infill the spaces between the sprouts with wild cranesbill geranium, like this. you know i adore geraniums, of all varieties.
my next project is to root prune two very large flowering quince shrubs, so that i can transplant them to pots or different spots in the garden. flowering quince is my favorite shrub, and i can't believe i was so lucky to find a house with three mature specimen. for that matter, could i have gotten any more lucky with all the variety of plants i inherited from the cary family. a garden grows on booker street, for sure.
knowing is half the battle, part 2
in december i posted knowing is half the battle, in which i came clean of my absolute obsession with furniture. well, my obsession abated slightly (only very slightly) for the last few months - as i was preoccupied with other things - but friends, i confess to you, i am consumed again.
i think about furniture all the time. i am haunted by the pieces i have seen but not acquired. what was i thinking? no amount of money is as dear as the pleasure i get from touching the oiled form of a teak lounge chair and gazing at the intricate weave of a roped seat. or, sigh, the combination of both teak and rope, such as the pair of folding chairs to the left and the little round beauty below.
i will have this round, roped chair if it cleans out my bank account. it is simply stunning in its simplicity of form and complexity of construction. S I G H
chairs are really my primary objets du desir, but the forms and shapes of other pieces attract me as well. vanities (such as the one to the left) and dressing tables are of particular interest, but modern interpretations are hard to come by. somehow i misjudged the market for this vanity and let it slip through my fingers for a mere pittance (i am still flagellating myself for losing it.)
i have been suffering in silence over the last few months as a result of the pieces i have loved and lost. so, in order to keep the memories of them close to my heart and fresh in my mind, i thought i would post images of them here. i hope you enjoy the objects of my obsession as much as i do.
friday random 10 (i hope this one is better) 5/5/06
- banquet (phones disco edit) by bloc party, from the bloc party ep (i heart bloc party)
- the green green grass by amanset, from set free (fab song, but they appear every week)
- beretta by manishevitz, from city life (finally some variety)
- twelve fold chain by the books, from lost and safe (more variety!)
- loss leaders by spoon from soft effects ep
- seems so long ago, nancy by palaxy tracks from twelve rooms
- vanishing point by new order from the best of...
- on repeat by lcd soundsystem from lcd soundsystem disc 1
- music is happiness by the octopus project from one ten hundred thousand million
- these are the fables by the new pornographers from twin cinema (finally some neko)
interesting mix of pop and new wave, albeit a bit unbalanced. not a bad random 10, little pod!
i uprooted a number of poorly-located rose bushes in the fall of 2005. all but one weathered the disruption of the transplant ahd the winter, and of those, only one is not in bud. i currently have a gorgeous salmony-pink tea rose in bloom. it looks alot like this one called leaping salmon.
i have an amazing white rose - not sure what variety - that is covered, absolutely covered, in blooms. the blooms are unlike tea roses, which are the classic roses, in that they are very loose and amorphous. the petals have little or no strength in them, so when fully open they are very droopy. it's obviously an old garden variety like this one, called frau karl drushki.
i have been transplanting a number of wee clematis paniculata vines along our chain link fence. as you long-time readers may recall, my garden is a veritable oasis of this wild clematis variety. the transplanting and training along the fence worked wonders last summer and fall for concealing the ugly chain links in clouds of green tendrils and thousands of tiny white stars. just like this!
