Garden Corner 4/23/09

It’s the perfect time to enjoy spring flowers in my Kansas garden corner. Today in the garden I found blue, pink, yellow and red flowers. Do you recognize any of them? Some came with the garden, others I planted, and there are a few invaders which nonetheless look pretty. The only problem is that I’m not used to the new wave of heat which arrived this week. I did some digging in the sun yesterday – it was pretty hot!

My poor spring greens are trying not to wilt under this 95F heat and I’m wondering whether the lettuce, which up to now remained tiny because of the cold weather, will ever get the right conditions. On the positive front, I’ve already enjoyed eating spring greens in both salad and stew. If this warm weather continues I’ll simply pick the spring greens, slice them, and freeze for later use.

Edible Landscaping – Kansas City
Yesterday I heard on the radio about the Edible Landscape exhibit at Powell Gardens in the Kansas City metro. It’s due to open this summer and it sounds wonderful! I think they said they have 40 varieties of apple trees and over 30 varieties of pears. I’ve a terrible memory for numbers though so don’t quote me! I was pretty excited to hear it’s going to be the largest edible landscape exhibit in the country. I hope I got that one right…

On the KCUR program talking were Rosalind Creasy who has written a whole series of books on Edible Landscaping and Alan Branhagen, from Powell Gardens. I’m going to have to find out more about this great project and write about it another time. Meantime, if you want to hear the radio program they have a podcast available. Now, if I just had endless time I’d pop on over there and listen once more

How is your garden corner doing? Have you got signs of life, trees budding, birds nesting?

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