Tag: my garden

  • When Life Gives You Lavender

    Andrea Cordonier

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    I don’t think of our family as highly-ritualized, but the growing and using of lavender is an annual activity, a foundation of our seasonal calendar. The little ones fight over who gets to pick it, then we crush it in the palms of our hands until we smell like the south of France.  If the… Read more

  • Bouquet

    Bouquet

    Andrea Cordonier

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    An early morning bouquet for Bellissima’s room: peonies, third wave of lilacs, rosa rugosas, prolific lemon balm, rotund chive blooms, Siberian iris, Nepeta and all. Seems early for some of these lovelies, a treat for Miss Bella, the bees, and me. Read more