Portrait of a Colewort

This was billed as a Portuguese kale, but it does bear some resemblance to the coleworts, as seen here in _the numbering at Bethlehem_ by Pieter Brueghel in 1566.

It is interesting to note that 40years later Nathaniel Bacon painted large-headed cabbages in his _cookmaid with still life vegetables_

Also of note, Sylvia Landsberg uses collards to 'stand in' for coleworts at the Bayleaf Hall gardens (rather than omit this important plant due to insure ties as to it). And Dierdre Larkin at the Cloisters agrees. Plimoth Plantation also uses collards as coleworts.

I have collards too, as they were from seed they are not so photogenic yet. It will be interesting to compare them.

Important moments in canal building

The last bit of earth between the dry and the wet



Is this what gardening in Venice is like?

Echinacea

The purple cone-flower


Wild cucumber as a bonus

Helm

New chest

A nice new chest
Upon the green sward
It goes together best
And comes all apart

Thys daye

Yet more rain, but only a wee bit in passing this day. But the garden s drowning so a ditch I dug up the middle and the water did run off.

Day lilies and daisies are flowering, an echinacea. Here too are the seed pods if columbine.

Thence into the river with me to cool off!

Drowning drowning, the grass peas are flowering
Put a pork tenderloin to cure, salt sugar garlic and cubebs