garden – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Wordless Wednesday

Lenten Roses in bloom
these plants are from my friend Joan’s Garden

“Lenten rose (Helleborus x hybridus) is not a rose; it’s a perennial hybrid hellebore belonging to the buttercup family”

March 7, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: blossoms, flowers, garden, Hellebore, Lent, Lenten Roses, perennial, photography, plants, postaday 7 Comments

Milkweed Pod

Ready for take off.
Where will these seeds go?

December 4, 2022December 5, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Columbus OH, garden, milkweed, neighborhood, photography, pod, postaday, seeds, weather 8 Comments

Still Blooming in November

This post is made with my Pittsburgh friend Tookie in mind, as she grows beautiful geraniums.

Here’s a link to the blog post about her magical geraniums

What is still blooming in Samobor, Croatia?

Geraniums

November 6, 2022November 6, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Croatia, flowers, garden, geraniums, photography, postaday, Samobor, travel 5 Comments

Last Year it was Knuckleheads

A year ago, I saw Knucklehead pumpkins for the first time when I was with friends at the Idylwilde Market in Acton Massachusetts. (Click link to see post)

Fall 2022: I spotted this display at the Bryant Street Market. An image search found American Turks Turban Squash Gourd (Cucurbita Maxima) and you can get ten seeds @$17 to grow your own.

Says they are edible and here’s a recipe link for Turban Squash soup

“ Turban squash encompasses a group of winter squashes known for their turban-like cap or acorn on the blossom end, and these squashes are predominately used as an ornamental to showcase its bright colors, patterns, and unusual shape. There are many varieties of Turban squash inclu Turk’s Turban, French Turban, Mexican hat, Turk’s Cap, American Turban, and Marina di Chioggia.” From the Specialty Produce website

A Turban Squash resting on top of white squash of some sort I don’t know

September 26, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: autumn, food, garden, market, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, pumpkin, recipe, squash 6 Comments

So this happened after I posted the lone tomato pic

A knitting friend saw my lone cherry tomato harvest post with the accompanying nickel photo . She’d had an abundant harvest. There was a box of raspberries too but I ate them before I thought to take a pic.

Here’s what she brought me and I threw them into olive oil and garlic (thanks David) and turned them into a fresh tomato sauce.

September 6, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: food, fresh tomato dance, front porch, garden, harvest, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, spaghetti, tomatoes 8 Comments

The Rose of Sharon is Now Unfurled *

Rose of Sharon is NOW unfurled* see below

Thanks to a comment by Yvette of Priorhouse blog I looked up Rose of Sharon in Grapes of Wrath click to read of the symbolism of her name and character. It’s been a long time since I read it.

I’d mentioned the Bible reference before from the Song of Solomon

*I’d posted a Rose of Sharon blossom recently and declared it unfurled but it was truly furled and had only become unfurled now . “transitive verb. : to release from a furled state. intransitive verb. : to open out from or as if from a furled state : unfold.”

I was incorrect although I haven’t edited the post. Yet.