It sounds awfully fancy, but it’s really quite simple
I’d cut some of the garden’s flowers for the evening — the last of the big, fluffy pink Therese peonies and small bouquets of miniature climbing roses that grow together with small-flowered, summer-blooming Clematis viticella vines at edges of vegetable plots.
The strawberries, in their prime of production at the time of the potluck, prompted an urge to make a strawberry chocolate cheesecake, a dessert I’d made only once before. New garden treats. Like most gardeners, I have a roster of longstanding reliable varieties that I grow almost every year. Among them are Green Arrow shelling peas, Sensation cosmos, Napoli carrots, Aspabroc sprouting broccoli and Snow Crown cauliflower.
In this year’s JSS catalogue I noticed an unusual “green stem” cauliflower, a type popular in Asia, that is harvested after the florets have elongated and the curds have begin to separate. It is called Song TJS-65. It is also known as sweet stem or loose curd cauliflower. The plant, thriving easily with little care, still brings a challenge. At certain times over the course of sunny days, random shafts of light cause some of the leaves to take on an almost ethereal rosy glow that I’ve never been able to capture in a photo. That lack of success has done nothing to dim my delight in this beautiful plant — and other Heucheras in the garden.
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