I just love this plant, and we have masses of it here at Mucky Boots. It reminds me of some people I know: so emphatically and unapologetically prickly you just have to stop and admire.
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About Me
- Miriam
- Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
- Welcome to Mucky Boots Farm! In 2009 we left our jobs as Math and Science teachers and moved to a 2.5 acre property in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, with a raised-bed vegetable garden, greenhouse, orchard, chickens and perennial gardens, in order to realize our dream of a saner, calmer life more rooted in reality than in the drama of city living, all-consuming jobs and the ever-increasing accumulation of belongings. Are we farmers? Are we dreamers? Only time will tell!
The house
The Veggie Garden
The perennial gardens
Frankie, William and The Boots
5 comments:
You are not only observant, but also poetic. I hope those prickly people stay a safe distance away from your front door.
Hello Miriam! I'm just getting caught up on my blog visits and have enjoyed catching up on yours--I love the mail-box-chicken, and think maybe you should try using it to get your babies inside at night! :-)
I also have the same problems with weeds, and have decided that there is beauty in them, so I have left some of them! How's that?
Admire, yes, but from a distance!
I've never seen a globe thistle- that's a pretty neat looking plant! Do they dry well?
Apparently they make great dried flowers - they're so stiff and hard to begin with I think you'd hardly notice the difference between fresh and dried! They're really quite gorgeous - four or five feet tall, with lovely bushy foliage (if you keep them watered). They do best in full sun, but we have some in part shade and they're a bit smaller, but just as lovely. The official name is Echinops, and you can order seeds here: http://www.westcoastseeds.ca/product/Flower-Seeds/Echinops/
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