And the heat goes on and on, at a relentless 30 degrees,(centigrade), or thereabouts, and I am feeling wilted like my animals. Would that I were supple enough to sprawl like the creatures,
or were small enough to creep under the cool nasturtium and zucchini canopy.
Here’s the zucchini in the mix, in case you doubt me.
Oh dear, living in Christchurch has turned me into a heat wimp. Long gone are the days when 42 degrees meant hot, and 30 degrees was cardigan time.
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zuccinni blossom cost you around 3 USD each hear..
i just love to stuffed it with green peppercorn ricotta.. and simply roasted
I am astonished at the cost. Stuffed with peppercorn ricotta sounds delicious.
You are having sweet ice tea weather.
Indeed. Come over and join me for ice tea on my summer porch. You can bring the ice 😀
I will. and a bit of cool wind with me.
zucchinis leaves are similar to squash..love that orange flwer creeping underneath..
It sure has been a hot weekend.onsat I wondered about the house in my nightie til 3pm but had a great catch up with. Special girlfriend a husband alas she was out. On Sunday ihad planned to go church but slept in so once again wanered around in my nightie watering the back garden then at 3pm went out t visit friends from wgtn. We had a wonderful catch up and plan brunch together later in the week . Being too hot to garden I spent hours watching family DVDs reading and listening to favourite CDs ot panpipes music I bought at last years elders lie festival. Jack certainly looks wiped out and I love the combination of nasturtiums and feel guilty as I had them growing everywhere and dug the they were completely taking over my geranium and pelagonium patch,!
Nasturtiums do take over which is why I am growing them in a container this year.
We have had a bit of snow here today. I caught some and swished it east towards you…
That did the trick. It is cooler today. Thanks 🙂
Happy to be of service ma’am 🙂
I am so happy to have stumbled onto your blog. I love that I can read about the heat when I am in such a deep freeze in Canada. Thank-you. I will follow you.
Glad that my blog is warming your life. Thankfully, it is cooler today.
What a lovely idea to mix your nasturtium and zucchini; I will try that.
Stay cool! Jack seems to have found the right idea 🙂
Send some heat over please…… we have 0 degrees….. brrrr….it is double cardigan time here!
I wish I could. Keep warm in those cardigans:)
How did you ever manage 42 degrees???!!!! But then I wonder how I managed the minus 42 degrees of Northern Canada’s winters. Our fellow travelers, the animals, seem to have a high level of flexibility and adaptation – and acceptance.
Minus 42! I can’t even imagine that.
Neither can I anymore….
i love love love nasturtiums! yes, creep beneath the canopy and release your inner child! nibble a nasturtium! their colors are so happy, the leaves are happy! i love to paint watercolor studies of them…
squash… stuff of fry those blossoms or of course enjoy the fruit
it’s not often too hot here, but a few days ago before the next wave of rain… wow, it was stuffy! i was painting and so very sweaty, quite unusual for here where i live in ecuador.
z
They are happy flowers/plants and deliciously edible. Do you have any of your nasturtium paintings on your blog? The squash are lovely too. I decided to grow them and the nasturtiums in the one container this year which was probably a bit silly because the squash need so much more water than nasturtiums do. But they seem happy enough together. We don’t usually get heat day after day like this. Usually the weather changes rapidly; sometimes we have four seasons in one day.
ps.. I eat borage flowers too! Steal them from under the bees’ noses.
your ‘ps’ made me laugh!
i haven’t gotten a ‘start’ of nasturtiums here on the coast, but they grow like weeds in the andes. a friend presented me with a nosegay of nasturtium leaves last week, and my jaw hit the ground! she has an organic garden about an hour away in the hills.. aja, i will soon be getting some flowers, i hope. i promise to paint a watercolor study asap!!!
z