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Strange Times
May. 16th, 2020 06:15 pmIn my list of occupations yesterday, I was not anticipating that I would add 'acanthus bather', but here we are. It has rained once since lockdown on 23 March, and the powdery mildew was taking over: I looked up how to fight it, online, and the advice was to remove the affected leaves. That would have left me with no leaves, so there I was gently scrubbing them with an ash broom and mildly soapy water in the morning sun. I hope the plant gets enough strength from its renewed photosynthesis that it can fight off the rest of it itself, because there is still no rain in the forecast ...
In other horticultural news, I cannot see how I can possibly have thimbleberry in the garden, because that is a plant native to the Pacific Northwest and not productive enough to propagate for cultivation, or attractive enough to be ornamental. And yet, I keep looking at it growing, at no point diverging from the thimbleberry model, and thinking, that has to be thimbleberry, it can be no other thing. If it turns out that it is, it will be a very difficult summer, because thimbleberry is my ABSOLUTE FAVE but the size of the patch now means I'd have to choose between eating any and making it bigger. I very much want to make it bigger. I want to make it as big as possible. Which means putting the berries in the ground, not in my mouth. Which will be hard.
In other horticultural news, I cannot see how I can possibly have thimbleberry in the garden, because that is a plant native to the Pacific Northwest and not productive enough to propagate for cultivation, or attractive enough to be ornamental. And yet, I keep looking at it growing, at no point diverging from the thimbleberry model, and thinking, that has to be thimbleberry, it can be no other thing. If it turns out that it is, it will be a very difficult summer, because thimbleberry is my ABSOLUTE FAVE but the size of the patch now means I'd have to choose between eating any and making it bigger. I very much want to make it bigger. I want to make it as big as possible. Which means putting the berries in the ground, not in my mouth. Which will be hard.
