Good Morning Sunshine! This lemon yellow sunflower woke us up a few mornings ago. It's sorbet color, plus it's height (about 2 meters) makes sure it gets lots of attention.
A friend of ours, who has a huge organic garden in Hoegaarden (yes, the town of the famous citrus-y Belgian beer), brought us a huge tall graceful bunch of coriander (aka, cilantro) flowers as a house-warming gift last year. And ever since then, I've wanted them in my garden. I made thai curries, ginger-lime soups, and topped salads, honey-ginger glazed chicken with the young leaves. Now I have these beautiful flowers, and tiny pale green spheres that will soon bronze into coriander seeds -- to add to further curries, Indian, Moroccan... Oh, I'm in love!
Another lace-like flower. Melding yellow into green. I planted dill for the chance to make yogurt sauces and delicate, yet flavor-packed fish --- but I also wanted the flowers. And next to the coriander, it creates a lacy curtain in front of our sunflowers.
And one ruby ripening on the vine. We had some on the pizzas I made yesterday. I'll post those pictures soon.
2 comments:
mmm, I love cilantro. That's gonna be my firstborn's name, cili for short. Don't try to steal it.
On a side note, had no idea it was related to coriander. Maybe that could be a siblings name...
hahaha! I love "cili"! and the sibling will be "corie" for short? but you would be effectively naming the after same thing... we might have to think harder on it... hmmmm...
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