... you can stalk around all evening.
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May 18, 2011
May 26, 2020
At the Allium Café...
... you can talk about whatever you want.
It's allium season, so remember to use the Althouse Portal when you are shopping at Amazon.
May 23, 2014
Pinkness.
Trillium:
Allium:
Tulips:
Tulips:
All seen today, on my late afternoon walk. The trillium and the allium grown within the realm of Meadhouse. The tulips graced a nearby landscape.
Allium:
Tulips:
Tulips:
All seen today, on my late afternoon walk. The trillium and the allium grown within the realm of Meadhouse. The tulips graced a nearby landscape.
July 9, 2011
"First garlic harvest!"
Says Meade, plunking these down on the counter:
(That's not the counter. I took them outside for good natural light.)
Here's some of the as-yet-unharvested garlic:
Although Meade has grown garlic commercially at other times, in other places, this garlic was planted only because Meade bought a whole lot of harvested garlic from some vendor at the Dane County Farmers' Market, and when he got it home, he discovered it hadn't been properly dried and considered it unfit for eating. So he planted the garlic bulbs, which are in the genus Allium, in a row behind the flowering alliums.
You saw Meade planting the smallest of the flowering alliums in this video last fall. (The day after Election Day. Included in the video is a shot of a political sign in the neighbors' yard for the lefty candidate who was more left than the lefty candidate who won.*) And here's a picture of what the 2 taller types of allium looked like flowering in May.
__________
*Brett Hulsey.
(That's not the counter. I took them outside for good natural light.)
Here's some of the as-yet-unharvested garlic:
Although Meade has grown garlic commercially at other times, in other places, this garlic was planted only because Meade bought a whole lot of harvested garlic from some vendor at the Dane County Farmers' Market, and when he got it home, he discovered it hadn't been properly dried and considered it unfit for eating. So he planted the garlic bulbs, which are in the genus Allium, in a row behind the flowering alliums.
You saw Meade planting the smallest of the flowering alliums in this video last fall. (The day after Election Day. Included in the video is a shot of a political sign in the neighbors' yard for the lefty candidate who was more left than the lefty candidate who won.*) And here's a picture of what the 2 taller types of allium looked like flowering in May.
__________
*Brett Hulsey.
May 25, 2013
May 26, 2014
The new bee and reality.
The new bee...
... hasn't bumbled yet. The allium is...
... peaking, as the late May sun forces us to see the reality, which is that the Pennisetum that crashed like grass surf away from the allium and onto the sidewalk last summer did not survive the winter that dragged Madison out of Zone 5...
... and Meade uproots and upends the dead things and works the ground into a condition called "chocolate cake."
... hasn't bumbled yet. The allium is...
... peaking, as the late May sun forces us to see the reality, which is that the Pennisetum that crashed like grass surf away from the allium and onto the sidewalk last summer did not survive the winter that dragged Madison out of Zone 5...
... and Meade uproots and upends the dead things and works the ground into a condition called "chocolate cake."
May 24, 2017
May 26, 2015
After the rainstorm...
... Meade gathered up all the allium that had fallen over.
ADDED: The indoor view:
May 21, 2012
The new wave of purple.
Just as the allium — seen here in the cast shadows — fade to green-brown, the irises pop.
October 6, 2012
At the Garlic Harvest Café...
... let's be methodical about the differences.
(Enlarge photo.)
ADDED: This was a taste test with 12 varieties of allium ophioscorodon — hardneck garlic — all grown this year by Meade, from Wisconsin stock, planted last October.
May 10, 2017
May 21, 2015
At the Allium Café...
... you can talk about whatever you want.
(And, please, if you've got any Amazon shopping you want to do, use The Althouse Portal.)
May 28, 2011
At the Allium Spacecraft Café...
... don't take off just yet.
(That's my photo, animated by Chip Ahoy, according to instructions by Penny.)
May 16, 2021
October 11, 2010
The end of the love grass...
Meade had to cut it down...
... to get to the places where he's planting allium bulbs. And look! In the love grass stubble: an acorn stuck right in:
A squirrel must have thought that would keep it for the winter. And I had Googled for solutions to the problem of the squirrels digging all those little acorn-holes in the new lawn. I was sitting on the stoop at the time, but I relocated to the incredibly soft — spongy! — new turf grass:
... to get to the places where he's planting allium bulbs. And look! In the love grass stubble: an acorn stuck right in:
A squirrel must have thought that would keep it for the winter. And I had Googled for solutions to the problem of the squirrels digging all those little acorn-holes in the new lawn. I was sitting on the stoop at the time, but I relocated to the incredibly soft — spongy! — new turf grass:
May 26, 2011
May 24, 2017
May 22, 2019
July 2, 2013
All those tags.
The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. I considered adding a sidebar gadget that would show all the tags, but I saw that there were over 3,000 of them. For what its worth, I've copied and pasted the list of tags, which you can see after the jump.
The number in parens is the number of times I've used the tag. The list is in alphabetical order, with the top of the list being tags that were originally written with quotation marks. This is something the software no longer lets me do, so some of those tags reappear without quotation marks, and thus the numbers in parens for the tags with quotation marks are not accurate.
If you want to find the posts that have a particular tag, copy and paste the word(s) into the search box at the top left of this page, and when you find a post that has that tag, click on that tag. In other words, forgive me for not taking the time to make this list all hot links.
The number in parens is the number of times I've used the tag. The list is in alphabetical order, with the top of the list being tags that were originally written with quotation marks. This is something the software no longer lets me do, so some of those tags reappear without quotation marks, and thus the numbers in parens for the tags with quotation marks are not accurate.
If you want to find the posts that have a particular tag, copy and paste the word(s) into the search box at the top left of this page, and when you find a post that has that tag, click on that tag. In other words, forgive me for not taking the time to make this list all hot links.
May 17, 2017
Peak allium!
To my eye, it's the height of the gardens of Meadhouse. There's much more to come, but what a show, these big purple globes!
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