From the Poppy Gallery: Double Blooming Opium Poppy
In Trumpets, Spires, Bells: Japanese Wisteria
In the Herb Gallery: Empress of India Nasturtium
Absolutely fabulous vielle playing by Shira Kammen. Highly recommend the whole album but this particular tune (Hanter Dros) is melodic - listen all the way through. And truth be told, the plants just love it! (Yes, I do have some wild theories about growing plants). You can stream this song and hear the complete play list of vielle, ambient and classical music here or download the mp3 to play on your own desktop. Complements Magnatune. Happy listening!
Sub Rosa: Interview with Graham Hancock: On Plant Teachers (.pdf download). This review is featured on page 35 in Issue 2 of the most interesting Sub Rosa Magazine. I love this particular issue both for it's inclusion of the controversial Graham Hancock, and, for the featured cover art by amazing plant shaman and artist Pablo Amaringo. His text "Ayahuasca Visions" is well worth reading both for it's interesting shamanic and cultural insights as well as for the stunning imagery. To see more issues of Sub Rosa visit: The Daily Grail. Enjoy!
Why Organic? Much like a PowerPoint presentation but still extremely interesting. Compares organic cultivation to conventional growing methods and covers topics such as: genetics, overall sustainability concerns, impact to our ecosystem, and some interesting reflections on the relationship (consequence) between chemical application advocacy and consciousness. Quite lengthy so view when time permits if you are interested in the topic.
A masterpiece of plant macro's - fruits, seeds, pollen. More visuals and where to obtain here.
Heirlooms and Italian seed. Marianna's.
Kitazawa. An excellent seed source for some less common varieties. FYI: their kyoto and "violet" carrots grow extraordinarily well and are highly nutritious!
ChilePlants.com. You will be amazed at the very exotic peppers from high in Peru to well, Chile. No kidding - super fabulous live plant shippers!
Complete Kitchen Gardener - By John Abercrombie and as published in 1789. The full text available online courtesy of the fabulous Victory Hort. Library.
Wonderful seed selections from Saitama, Japan from Tenenomori with the (obvious) focus on native edible fruits, vegetables and legumes. Posted in the developing Garden Curiosities gallery; where you will also find the pdf download of their current catalog (Japanese).
Garden Curiosities, Plant Cultures in Seeds, Sibyllae Plantarum New gallery for my many black irises, poppies, and my one lonely clematis (which at one time had companions but is now the last standing; the lot of them are getting drowned out by Melissa and the English Mint --- as will be seen in the photo below)! I actually had several more poppy varieties including picotee as well as a lavender single blooming opium poppy - except I can't find those pics yet. Poppies really are (one of :) my favorite flowers and I am obsessed with them. The VERY red one below is a classic oriental poppy - doesn't it look just like artwork??? Please feel free to visit these new gallery additions. Happy viewing!
Flower Fascinations in Clematis, Iris, Poppy, Sibyllae Plantarum Well I've had the honor of actually holding a butterfly. Which I think is pretty cool considering they are generally very flighty creatures and not kindly towards being handled. But this one butterfly just kind of stuck around for awhile - it seemed to like my (enormous) chive plants very much! Indeed, I have created a gallery of just this one butterfly.... I know... crazy but I love to photograph them when I can get them to sit still! Visit the "one butterfly" gallery. :)
Finding Faeries in Butterfly, Chive, Garden Faeries, Herbs, Sibyllae Plantarum Astounding isn't it? See another version of this series plus links to where to obtain these books in the Garden Gallery here.
Garden Curiosities in Books 
By John Abercrombie and published in 1789, the full text of The Complete Kitchen Gardener (And Hot Air Forcer) has been lovingly made available for your online perusal by the wonderful folks from the Victory Seed Company via their in house horticultural library.
Garden Curiosities in Books 
