Showing posts with label pot gardening. cutting gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pot gardening. cutting gardens. Show all posts

Thursday, July 8, 2010

New York New York

It started out cool and beautiful, perfect for walking around the reservoir in Central Park.
And unless you've been hiding under a rock you know that NY is in the grip of a record breaking heat wave. Sticky hot at night, sticky hot in the morning. Yuck. But the plants seem to love it. A kitchen garden in pots - 

and Jane's beautiful cutting garden - I wrote about it in Postcards From The Hedge - it's the Madison Avenue Flower Shop Garden. And it is wonderful. Lovely things to look at, lovely things to cut. No guilt about cutting from the cutting garden -  it's what it's for, and you won't be leaving a big hole in the garden that's meant mostly for looking. And birds.

The cutting garden is inviting and colors are massed together. Even I can make a beautiful bouquet here. If you don't think you're a flower arranger try building the bouquet in you hand. It's the only way I can do it - still. Buckets of flowers intimidate and confuse me. But not this! This I can handle.




Yellow lilies, bright zinnias and masses of dahlias. I felt like a kid in a candy store. It is such a happy place, even the kitchen window is happy. 

And why spend your time anyplace but happy?