- On August 20, my husband Pieter planted these Sky Pencils - Ilex crenata Japanese holly. The pots came from Home Depot and are frost proof. Just have a look at these Sky Pencils...
- Under each pot is a large tile for placing them. Shown also all the balusters, posts and ginger bread from Vintage Woodworks, Texas. Wreath with some real green.
- Of course we did baby them during the extreme heat!
- Yes, still on November 12, you see the stark contrast between shade and sunshine, even close to 5:00 PM.
- These pots were in the shade most of the day, as they're on the north side towards the road.
- This was taken on November 12 and you can see the fall colors.
- The oak tree in front of the house (top right) has lost most of its leaves already...
- To the left of the house is another huge oak tree.
- Some of the prostrate gardenias did bloom again in November, after the hot and dry summer.
- Do you keep evergreens in pots as well?
Having such a vast garden as we have, does give many surprises too. This year we did discover for the very first time big round 'nuts' on the ground near the creek, beside our greenhouse. Asking some friends they turned out to be
'Juglans Nigra - Eastern Black Walnuts'. A bit messy for taking them out of their shell but they are supposed to be delicious. This special find I want to share with you. Obvious such a tree needs to have a certain age before bearing nuts. It is quite tall, rather slender and thus hard to spot the nuts hanging on the limbs.
One Juglans Nigra -
Eastern Black Walnut is still left in its hull, the others are bare but not yet dry...
As said, a tall tree already. I did read about
Black Walnut that they only start producing well at the age of 20 years. The few nuts they produced from age 4-6 might have been taken by the squirrels before we ever knew we
had some...
The top right shows the Juglans Nigra - Eastern Black Walnut on November 7.
This is our harvest from November 15...
With and without hull...
One black walnut up close...
11 days later they did dry up a lot. This photo was taken on November 26.
Do you have any walnuts?
On September 13, I did visit in my birth city of Horst, The Netherlands,
Museum de Kantfabriek or the Lace Factory Museum. It was quite interesting to look how clothing around 1850 looked. White starched linen detachable collars for men, that got attached with special collar studs through button holes. Click:
Victorian Period Linen, Cotton, Linene and Celluloid Detachable Collars to see such Victorian pieces and scrolling further down, shows you also the collar and shirt studs. What a different world then!
To the right you see the detachable collars with the collar studs.
Above is a white silk shawl that was worn with the cylinder hat.
To the right of the white silk shawl is a gray jacquard ascot.
Does anyone of you still have such Victorian items?
Hand embroidery and lace was used to embellish the 'Trouseau' which was mainly worked in pure linen.
Do you still have some heirloom pieces of linen?
