My little cutting garden is tucked between the blue wall and the fava bean forest. Behind the wall is my husband’s shop with all sort of stuff laying around. Useful stuff, but not good looking stuff. Now, the blue wall is at most two feet tall and the fava forest is an ungainly mess. My little cutting garden is just a tiny bit of color between two big messes. It is actually small, a rectangular bed about six feet by six or nine inches. I don’t spend much time looking at it, just a quick daily assessment of which flowers will be cut and brought up to the house, that’s it.
I was sitting on the ground, pulling Bermuda grass, when I saw it: my beautiful and tall cutting garden, ranunculus, poppies framed by the blue wall. No stuff, no favas in sight. Just the flowers and the blue wall.
May 26, 2010 at 2:45 am
This is such a beautiful picture, I would have it framed and put on the wall.
May 26, 2010 at 3:22 am
That is a gorgeous shot! Love the ranunculus, I must check and see if it will grow here…. Lovely, lovely, worth framing indeed.
May 26, 2010 at 4:54 am
What a beautiful picture! I agree that it should be framed so you can enjoy when the winter winds blow.
May 26, 2010 at 6:22 am
Beautiful picture!
I agree with others, it should be framed.
May 26, 2010 at 6:27 am
Isn’t it amazing what a change of perspective can do for a view! That is a lovely photograph indeed.
May 26, 2010 at 11:44 am
Oh, I love love love it!! Ranunculus are one of my very favorite flowers. Someday I hope to have a cut garden with loads of them…
May 26, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Thank you so much everybody, I really appreciate your positive feedback. It inspires me to go back out with the camera in search of beauty.
May 27, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Risking real redundancy, (and alliteration!) I must say that is one gorgeous photograph. I love the way the far flowers become abstract blobs of orange. It’s absolutely beautiful.
May 28, 2010 at 7:52 am
Thank you!
May 28, 2010 at 6:07 am
Very pretty! I’m sad that I neglecting my flowers this year. Maybe I’ll just go outside and scatter some seeds.
May 28, 2010 at 7:53 am
Yes, do it, a splsh of color would look so good in your lush and green garden!
May 29, 2010 at 3:48 pm
I want to make a blue wall!! (such a serendipitous delight ti find you -or did you find me?- at farmers market)
May 29, 2010 at 11:34 pm
We found each other at market. It is always lovely to run into you around town!