I love this time of year - spring flowers are beginning to pop out everywhere, including some of my favorite edible wildflowers. One day last week I decided it was time to begin picking season in earnest. I set out with two baskets and came back a few hours later with this haul: forsythia in … Continue reading Flower Jelly Season Begins Again
Flowers
Spring is Flowering
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. - Gertrude S. Wister It is true, I just adore spring flowers. After the long winter, those first shoots of greenery followed by bursts of color warm my heart. This year the daffodils were the first … Continue reading Spring is Flowering
A New Venture: Herbal Bath & Beauty
I've been reading a lot about healing herbs. The more I learn about natural remedies and the amazing power of herbs, the more committed I become to finding natural alternatives to the products we have always bought at the store. My newest venture is into bath and beauty products. I got a whole stack of … Continue reading A New Venture: Herbal Bath & Beauty
Getting Ready Again
I've been busily preparing for my next event. Tomorrow I will be at the 2nd annual Chilo Chili Cook Off at the Chilo Locks and Dam. The event runs 11:30-3:30 and proceeds benefit the Clermont County Park District. The weather should be beautiful and the park there at the dam is nice in its own … Continue reading Getting Ready Again
Sunflower Festival
I spent a lovely morning at Gorman Heritage Farm with my brother and sister-in-law and their two children. Gorman has a unique kind of fall festival that centers around an enormous field of sunflowers. You walk out to the field and they give you a pair of shears and a bag. You can cut your sunflowers … Continue reading Sunflower Festival
Happy volunteers
It's always exciting when a plant volunteers itself in the garden. This spring I had a few tomatoes volunteer from last year and bunches on ground cherries. Midsummer brought the happiest volunteers of all- these big beautiful sunflowers. I filled the bird feeders with black sunflower seed because I love watching the bright red cardinals … Continue reading Happy volunteers
Queen Anne’s Lace pickin’ time
Most of the flowers I pick to make jelly are spring bloomers. There's one mid-summer delight though, that comes along mid- to late-July here in southern Ohio: Queen Anne's Lace. It is a lovely, delicate flower in the carrot family that pops up on roadsides and open fields everywhere. I called my neighbor Rita … Continue reading Queen Anne’s Lace pickin’ time
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