Thursday, June 5, 2008

Escape of the wild strawberry plant



Gardening is not one of the strong points of She who paints, but one year She bought a small plant in a pot, wild strawberries, tiny, medieval, like something from the manuscript paintings that She likes. It was for a book She was working on.
The strawberry plant escaped the pot and found that it liked the wildness of the garden. It threaded its way around until it became a small bank of wild strawberries, an illuminated border of tiny flowers that promise the smallest, sweetest fruit in high summer. So delicate a red fruit with a taste that fills the heart and makes children smile.



13 comments:

  1. Such bliss on the Ginger Darling's face. Maybe she's dreaming of strawberries and cream -- well cream anyway.

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  2. Feel free to send any berries my way...

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  3. Whoa! I'll bet wild strawberries do taste extra-delicious.

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  4. Wow, how lucky you are to have wild strawberries!

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  5. That was a very smart plant to escape the pot. The earth must have smelled most welcoming to it and now it is rewarding your Mom :)
    Purrs Mickey

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  6. That was a very smart plant to escape the pot. The earth must have smelled most welcoming to it and now it is rewarding your Mom :)
    Purrs Mickey

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  7. I bet those berries would taste just like summer!

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  8. In the forest around Vukovar (Croatia), where I grew up, these strawberries would grow. We'd pick them sometimes and I still haven't forgotten the flavour. Every strawberry tasted after those, tasted much of nothing.

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  9. Mmmm, delicious! Happy, sensible little plant to escape and grow and grow:) xxx

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  10. Oh me and my mum are jealous that you will be getting strawberries. We have to wait til christmas, and we don't often get any wild ones.

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  11. You can't have a garden without strawberries. Don't wild ones have a lot more intense flavour. Lovely. x

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  12. We have wild strawberries growing rampant in our yard too. We leave them for the squirrels, birds and chipmunks to enjoy!

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  13. Wild stwawbewwies! Mine Mummy twied gwowing stwawbewwies because she woves them but she can never get them to gwow!

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