We stopped at a Concord garden store with obscene prices (eg $90 for a small terra cotta pot) not to shop (obviously) but to enjoy the owner’s exquisite taste. Made it home just as the rain started.
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Pattern and Outrage : Dee Mallon
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Watch out, it may never stop. 🙄🌧
Yeah. Getting sick of the grey here. I see you’re getting lots of rain too.
Insane, been pouring since last night.
Yikes. It’s been very on again off again here. But it sure doesn’t feel like June Eve.
It’s coming though…
Funny, how that works!
We had a similar garden center we would visit every year … never could afford much but would always come home with a perennial. Most of those plants are growing at our old house and sadly the center closed. It sure was fun while it lasted … life is filled with chapters.
Especially when you move… it’s hard for me to imagine who is actually shopping at this place. None of the plants had prices on them or I might’ve pick one up.
Dee~ What a fascinating nursery! One could tell the price range just by looking at the collection. Makes me wonder what is the range for local nurseries. We’ve often gone just for the looking, especially since moving – there is no need to purchase. There is a big one in Ventura that is pretty cool. 🙂
And I only captured a small fraction of it. Several greenhouses and interior sections were just as gorgeous.
If you come up this summer, remind me to take or send you to snug harbor farm.
We coming to Camden in August. I’ll text you.
We have several nurseries here in central New Mexico, large, and small, filled with many offerings of regular plants as well as native plants, trees, shrubs, etc. The one that is my favorite was discovered by accident; it is a little Native American nursery, run by Santa Ana Pueblo, tucked near one of the local Native American owned casinos, of all places! It was only a few minutes from our previous home and besides plants has local Native American crafts and books for sale. All of the plants are native, many grown from seed and drought resistant. When I asked about planting Native American corn, they were wonderfully helpful and told me that once we got our “harvest” to be sure to sprinkle a few kernels on the ground by way of thanking the land for providing.
It has been a couple of years since we visited them but every autumn, I take out my red, blue and multicolored dried corn and place them in baskets and pots in my home. One small local pot holds red corn kernels to that I always know to give thanks for whatever the land gives back.
You’re lucky to be near so much Native culture! Showing our thanks, such a good lesson. Does the redness of the kernels have special significance ?
“Red corn holds cultural, spiritual, and historical significance for many Native American tribes. It’s more than just a food source; it’s a symbol of cultural identity, connection to the land, and a link to ancestral traditions.”
This quote also applies to blue corn. Here in New Mexico, blue corn is ground into tortillas, a hot cereal, used in cornbread, pancakes, etc. The Hopi especially consider it sacred.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.