Know how I kept finding four leaf and a five leaf clover? All of these are four leaved, one is five (on my ring finger). Usually when I go digging up roots to transplant I prune most of the leaves off, but I couldn't bring myself to, so they'll be a bit wilty for a while. But this patch definitely puts out a ton of these, one rhizome has four of them in a row!

Celebrating spooky season with spooky gardening. I've been trying my hand at my completely uneducated interpretation of the phrase "herbal topiary" and have been experimenting. Only killed one plant so far. Anyway, I used moss as mulch in this Thai basil by mixing up a clump with soil and spreading it evenly, and the results look good enough that I made my alfalfa into a little bonsai type thing with some of the haunted Cherry st. moss.

#gardening #containerGardening #Halloween

Maybe if we all wrote our senators, we could get Halloween declared a national holiday and start a fund to provide disadvantaged folk with costume making supplies.

#halloween

This is beautiful. The author passed yesterday and sent this to her editor with a note that she was sick and the end was near. The writing is captivating.

https://www.edge.org/conversation/sara_lippincott-the-tea-table