Quote of the Day: Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
-Henry David Thoreau
I love this quote and thought about it when I was taking a few photos the other day. I had to add this quote to one of the photos, it was a little to small to show up well here and be easy to read so I put it on Flick – check it out.
I have a small fig tree that I’m overwintering in the basement. It was dormant for a few months, but it’s starting to wake up for the season. It has beautiful little leaves that have emerged from the buds, they’re so beautiful! They’re tiny at the moment, only about an inch tall, but so intricate in detail. Plant are truly amazing things! I’m always amazed at the tiny new leaves that appear when plants are coming out of dormancy.
What’s most amazing to you about plants?
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i am very intrigued by your growing of a fig tree in you climate! i want to grow figs so bad but i am not sure how in new england. do you have a reference that you recommend?
it’s beautiful!
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Eliot Colman explains the process of how to grow them in a cold climate in: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
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I love how they come back year after year…especially the raspberry canes :) Yumm a licious!
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Those photos are so beautiful. They make me want to reach out and touch those little leaves and feel their fuzziness. Kudos.~~Dee
to Dee @ Red Dirt Ramblings's comment
Most everything about plants amazes me.
Do you plan to espalier your fig?
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Look how pretty and green and fuzzy those leaves are! So pure….. Don’t you wonder how they know it’s time to wake up when they’re in a basement like that? I have some plants that do the same thing and I’m always amazed by it!
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Exquisite flawless greens….perfection…..what amazes me most……that I can be such a buffoon in starting my seeds too early or planting too deep or not watering enough…..and unfailingly they flourish. They know their duty even when I don’t do right by them….that is what I find amazing. It never fails to provide me with hope and joy.
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I have a fig tree I overwinter in the garage as well. What kind of fig is that? I just love the sweet little potted ones.
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It’s a Chicago Fig. I got it from Richter’s. http://www.richters.com/Web_store/web_store.cgi?product=X2520&show=all&prodclass=&cart_id=7872697.25887
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Plants amaze me in the way that they struggle to survive on an evolutionary scale. My recent glut of cilantro is a good example – I let one go to flower and that one plant has caused my garden to overflow with cilantro the next season. That one plant did its duty to make sure that it lived on long after it was gone, and did it do a wonderful job or what!
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The thing that amazes me about plants is their ability to multitask with grace. They provide food, habitat, shade, cleansing of our atmosphere, sanctuary for meditation and, of course, beauty.
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Definitely all-in-one kinds of things aren’t they, and they do it all so well. There’s nothing more beautiful than a mature cabbage plant in the front flowerbed surrounded by catmint and other flowering plants.
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