The Broken Barn Flower Farm is an integral part of Broken Barn Industries' world class joy delivery system. Join us on a seasonal journey of hard work, pain, and sweaty misery. All beauty, all the time on a real life flower farm. These are dispatches from Zone 5.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Still Gardening (like Madame DeFarge)
Amaranthus caudatus
"...may Love, we pray/ Like amaranthine flowers, feel no decay..."* -Joachim du Bellay from "A Vow To Heavenly Venus," ca. 1500.
*It says that cuz amaranthus retains its color almost indefinitely when dried.
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