jc & Ruth,

I go through spurts of interest & non-interest in growing plants.
Our small parcel of property is an odd and diverse collection.
We have a very nice and abundant sheld fungus growing out of one of our
many oaks.
The years of commuting took a lot of the gardening out of me.
This last year I revisited the small raised earth garden, it had been
taken over by really neat thimble-type berries.
I dug out the berries and relocated them. Then went to tomatoes and
peppers, but no ambition.
One year I grew tomatoes 15' high. They were remarkable and I had to use
a ladder to tend them.
Lots of lettuce this year, but mostly I stood in the garden eating arugula.
Next year I want to design the garden strictly for my grazing habits.
Nobody else in the house has an interest in any outdoor plants.
And this with vegetarians... you would think they would take an interest
in homegrown food.
We have a tall thistle weed that grows near the light pole and I
fertilize it.
I don't know what it is but I like it just the same.
The lawn is a mix of grass, crocuses, clover, moss and trimmed weeds
that I have not bothered to look up their name.
The fern garden did pretty well this year. I bought an Amaranth and am
waiting to see how it does.
For a while I was into miniature roses, but then my climate changed.
We have wild roses here and the domestic variety does fairly well
without tending.
I was raised collecting and cataloging wild plants.
A particular favorite is the Adder's Toungue
<http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_flora_com&enlarge=1335+3153+0216+0123>.

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