By Stacey Morgan Smith, June 18th, 2010, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Over the last few weeks, the milkweed has bloomed, and the last week brought a flurry of orange-winged fritillaries. I can’t yet identify the milkweed, so if you can, please let me know. – Stacey Morgan Smith
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By Stacey Morgan Smith, June 11th, 2010, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia black raspberries
I’m enjoying homegrown berries for dessert!
The brambles that are growing around the yard have turned out some beautiful black raspberries. If you’re not familiar with black raspberries, the taste is unique, not at all, in my opinion, like the cultivated red raspberries I’ve eaten nor anything like wild blackberries. I’ve […]
By Stacey Morgan Smith, June 8th, 2010, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia A recent bloomer on the farm (and along a bit of I81, from what I’ve seen) is this thistle, which I think is a Musk Thistle. This wonderful thistle guide from my alma mater helped me identify it.
I’ve found them growing mostly where they are in partial-to-full shade — at the edge of the […]
By Stacey Morgan Smith, June 7th, 2010, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia When spring had sprung, I was delighted to find a small crop of what looked like blueberries. Well, they were the same shape as blueberries.
service or June berries ripening
I hadn’t even noticed the blooms, but the leaves weren’t the same and they weren’t much of a bush, so I knew I […]
By Stacey Morgan Smith, June 7th, 2010, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Wile the Nigella I planted in the sweet pea garden seem to have suffered along with the peas in our early summer heat, a little bit of color in the catalpa garden turned out to be a spot of love-in-a-mist. The flowers are beautiful and their seed pods are gorgeous.
blue nigella
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