This recipe came this week with our veg box from Dennison Farms and it’s really good. Coarsely chop 2# summer squash, 1/2 onion, and 2 cloves of garlic. Add a potato or two if you want a thicker soup (I did…) Add 6 cups chicken stock (I used 8 c. broth and 2 extra potatoes […]
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Alisa Cooks up a storm…
Alisa Alexander (former student…now friend) came over last night and cooked us a DELICIOUS and lovely meal. Alisa is half Thai and the meal included spring rolls with her Mom’s peanut sauce and some yummy corn relish…Here’s how it went: (this is what the rice wrapper looks like before she soaks it…) all of the […]
Lord & Schryver
Saturday there was a tour of Lord & Schryver gardens and it was the PERFECT day…sunny and warm (but not too warm). We went first to Gaiety Hollow…Lord and Schryver’s home garden…the allee with the 300 year old oak tree was cool and inviting (though in spring it’s a riot of color), the brick paths […]
Lord and Schryver
I hope between now and September 18th you’ll have a chance to visit the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see an interesting show of the garden plans and watercolors of the landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, curated by Sharon Rose and myself. Lord and Schryver both attended the Lowthorpe School in Groton, […]
Getting Ready to go…
Now this morning I can’t remember HOW I made that post from my iPad last night…but I guess if I figured it out once I can figure it out again? In the meantime we ‘ve finished the garden projects met with the friends who will join us in Italy and aside from packing there isn’t […]
The Bush House Conservatory…!!
The Bush House conservatory was built in 1882…the oldest in the Pacific Northwest. It was built by Mr. Bush for his daughters Sally and Eugenia and was built of brick with a concrete veneer. There was no foundation for the original building and it was first heated with a wood stove. In the 1930’s a […]
Plant Saturday…
Oh is there anything nicer than a jaunt to a nursery on a Saturday morning? Carol and I headed out to Godfrey’s in Shaw for her annual impatiens (though they had no orange ones this year???) and the place was hopping as I hauled my wagon to check out I noted that at least one […]
DIY…The Garden Shed…
Remember this diagram??? Well, against all odds (as it seemed when just looking at it), R and Bill the Garden Guy took it on and wrestled it to the ground finishing up with only 8 missing screws and I extra piece (?) Big enough for two bikes and the garden tools and pots…but as you […]
Mourning a tree…and DIY
My neighbors had a tree taken out today and it always makes me sad to lose a tree…now that I’ve attained a certain age and can never live to see them grow really big. It was a walnut, covered in ivy, blocking sun fom other trees, but–habitat…there’s a LOT of livestock here in the central […]
The Scroll Garden…
In 1928 Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver (Schryver on the left, Lord on the right) opened a landscape architecture practice in Salem. Both had attended Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture in Groton, Massachusetts…though at different times. Schryver graduated first and had worked in NYC with Ellen Shipman for 5 years, but in 1927 they met […]
On The Way 