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Yeah, I guess the blue violets (what I assume you mean, Viola soraria) will be coming up here soon as well, along with the Confederate violets (same species, Confederates are the ones that are white with the blue/purple center.) Why the OTHER colors of this species, like the pure white and the...

Double annuals around here, since a lot of people put in a second set in the fall to give color until winter starts. How hardy they are also may depend on their genetics. Pansies are the result of so many crossings it's actually hard to define them as a discrete species (which is why they have...

I usually know when I listen to the crows and here their profanities get louder. Then I know it must be spring because the crow cusses have come up.

Pansies don't actually "come back", they're annuals. What they do do is drop seed that can germinate and make a new batch. This means that, if you just want pansies in general, you can simply wait, but if you want any specific color or pattern, you need to be prepared to do a lot of moving...

"It is a wise king who leaves a seat on his Council for his Jester."

The infamous seventeenth-century judge. George Jeffreys, pointed his stick at one of the rebels hauled before him in the famous 'bloody assizes' saying: 'There is a rogue at the end of my cane.' 'At which end, my Lord?' retorted the man.

I might think so. This year seems to be a good one for early spring flowers. Our front yard did a very good display this year (our house, and a lot of the ones around here, had the gardening trick don't to it in the 50's where you load the front yard with lots of tiny self replicating perennial...

For all of us who STILL have a long way to go before spring WEATHER begins (no matter WHAT the calendar says.)

Oh thanks for reminding me. I never put up the holiday playlist. And, because I am in an odd mood of humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7ow6ge5BBw

Actually, no (and it's Valley of Tea, not Tea Valley, unless there are two companies) My go-to for general tea (as opposed to the really expensive stuff) via mail is Simpson & Vail (I particularly like their Lewis Carrol blend from the Literary collection, but that's only good if you LIKE the...

I USUALLY eat leftovers for "breakfast" (I'm putting it in quotes because my first meal of the day is usually around 10:30 to 11:00, so it's more brunch than breakfast.) Most of the standard American breakfast items are too sweet for me (both in terms of taste and in terms of being good for my...

Reminds me of the riddle where you have to get out of a sealed metal box with only a desk, a piece of paper and a pencil. First, you take the take paper and pencil and draw what you see, then wait a minute. What you see becomes what you saw. Use the saw to cut the desk in two halves. Two halves...

My mom was telling me over dinner that, in the town one over from us, they had built a number of houses around the turn of the (20th) century, over what had previously been a park. What everyone forgot was, BEFORE it was a park, back in the late 17th and early 18th century, that spot was the...

My own take on anyone who says "Hard work is its own reward." "If hard work was its own reward, Sisyphus would have job satisfaction." I certainly get that not all of the rewards of hard work are material or even immediately obvious. But you out to get SOMETHING out of your labor, be it...

You'll need the scientific name then, Allium dregeanum. Apparently, it's a disjunct species (one whose nearest relatives are very, very far away.) And yes, all of the ones I ordered are edible. In fact, I think one of them (not sure which) is probably the one I read about in the National...

Eaten no, heard of, yes (it was in a book I had on fruits and vegetables of the world.) It's actually a kind of GRAPE hyacinth, an important distinction (as the regular full sized ones are poisonous.) Speaking of things in the Liliacae, I FINALLY managed to get my seed order to Sacred...

We did that in 1st grade, I think. We even had a funeral procession for the eggs that didn't hatch. They did it again at summer camp in 3rd or 4th, I think, but that time I understand (it was another group, so I only got to see the chicks once) none of them made it (someone turned the heat up...

Actually, it would have to start as an Oo-Ee, and progress through the Oo-Ah-Ah stage first.

Well, from my POV, people who go through life thinking everything revolves around them are even LESS use, and are in fact a HINDERANCE. They not only tend to totally lack any sense of responsibility, but think that the fact they DON'T automatically get whatever they want handed to them is some...

I know intuitively, that it would be a bit hypocritical to say they were OK for students and not for faculty, but it is sort of odd to see a period picture like this where the TEACHER is wearing saddle shoes to school!