And in other news, my mother may well have liked the botanical gardens market thingie that Reto and I went to yesterday. I have been meaning for ages to buy pots of herbs for our window sills, but the ones they hock in the supermarkets always look so depressed and semi-comatose, and I haven't really been organised enough to look anywhere other than supermarkets yet. Anyway, the other day Reto told me about this botanical gardens market and so yesterday we wandered down to have a squiz, and it was super! They had all sorts of crazy herbs I have hardly even heard of (although possibly that was more because the names were in french/german than because my botanical knowledge is lacking) and about 8 million different varieties of mint, and about 25 different types of organic tomato plants (which we don't have space for) and heaps of different types of chilli plants and all sorts of boring lettucey plants and .. well, a bunch of other things too, but who knows what they all were, and who really cares when you only have 3 crappy window sills (plus a few more that are a bit sloped and that pot plants would probably fall off). We ended up buying some mint (not apple mint or pineapple mint or peppermint or any of the other interesting types, sadly, but the pleasantly reliable one that we have in Sydney that grows relentlessly and is impossible to kill. Or a variety that looks like it, at least), a chilli plant (with green/orange chillis, apparently), some parsley (dull), some sort of basil that is not the normal kind, and two pretty succulent thingies. Aww!
Now all we need is a bunch of pots to put them all in.
1 comment:
nice to see the apostrophe on the right side of the "s".
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