This post was going to be all about how excited I was to have finally "wrapped up" (pun alert) my Faux Greenhouse de Herb Garden project. Which is actually my first real effort in attempting to make a rosemary plant live through the winter. Most of our herbs are not perennials, and our sage, mint, and thyme have lived through every winter since we planted them without any help at all, so really this is all about the rosemary.
I was going to detail the war between myself and the coiled chicken wire, in which I attempted to straighten it out, and it attempted to poke me full of ragged holes. I planned to re-enact the painstaking process (a pun! a pun! my kingdom for a pun!) of threading tiny bamboo poles through said chicken wire in order to hammer them into the ground for support. I had visions of chuntering on happily about the plastic and how soft and easy it was to work with, as the day was blessedly still - not a breath of wind while I worked.
Yes, that is what this post was going to be about, folks. And now, after seeing the picture I took of the finished product, I have only one thing to say.
Welcome to the morgue.
4 comments:
(((giggles)))
Hey, I'm glad you brought up the hickey point of view (heehee) on my blog today, because that is exactly my take on it. I think the poem is incredibly romantic and not at all about an abusive situation in the slightest.
Aren't you supposed to go six foot under for a body?
Well, yes, it does look a tiny bit coffin-like. Interesting to me that you can't get the rosemary to endure winter; it does the best in my garden. Having said that, a L.I. winter is probably a speck colder than a southern England one!
Willow - I'll take a hickey over a punch in the eye any day. 8-)
Joan - Aye, there's the rub!
Bee - I know... when I visited Arizona, they had a solid waist-high line of rosemary shrubs along the median of the main road. My mom has rosemary shrubs the size of a small hippo year-round on her place in North Carolina. But every year, my little brand new rosemary plants get frozen solid. Keeping toes crossed for this year!
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