mmm... artichokes!!!

I'm fantasizing about using these baby green artichokes in arrangements! What a fantastic moniker of spring!

certainly the strangest thing I grew last summer!

This is a Dutchman's pipe, Aristolochia, a fantastic vine I love! It is completely bizarre and the butterflies can't get enough of it! It is a great shade vine and it bloomed under my porch rather than out facing the light which was interesting but not so bad considering the unopened buds look more like an anatomical part of a Dutchman's body than an actual pipe... so anyways...

 
See what I mean!

Unfortunately this one didn't make it through the winter since it is zone 9-11 even though I mulched it like crazy... This year I'm searching for the perennial I've seen before in PA...

some oldies...

I found these cute photos from the day before my wedding and had to post them! I think my mom might have taken them...It was so special making my own hand tied wedding bouquet out of dahlias from the garden, green lotus pods, air plants (tillandsia), and green baby pineapple tops. 

 
At the rehearsal dinner at the Hobnob with my brother who had gotten married to my fantastic sister-in-law a couple of months prior...

Eatherley in our used-to-be-pink work room with locally grown phals and kegs for the wedding!