the last pea

i mean Sweet Pea Garden Shop photos. Sweet Pea is located in downtown Homewood, Alabama. A fantastic nursery to visit. Everything from garden art, signs, gifts, flowers, herbs, orchids, annuals, perennials, lots of shade loving perennials, water plants & a beautiful calico cat.

velvet mystery pods

my son & i found these velvet-feeling pods vine, locked up tight, hanging in some trees. they are softer than the inside of a bunny’s ear. any guesses as to what they are/become?

we have BLUEBERRIES!!!

ok, we have two blueberries. when you grow your own fruits & veggies & they become edible, it is like a holiday!

a Sweet (pea) place to be

more from Sweet Pea Garden Shop…i had a blast & left with far more flowers & herbs that I planned on…how does that always happen when i walk into a nursery?!

Alabama ‘meat & three’ defined by a Vermonter

i moved from the hippy-dippy, healthy-eating, all natural, homegrown food-eating, state of Vermont to Alabama in 1993. LONG STORY. one day, at my new job, the ladies all gathered in the front of the camera store & asked me if i wanted to go out for veggies for lunch. I thought it would be a…