🌿 CAPTURING SHAW ISLAND SUMMER, 2017 🌿

"Love-in-a-mist "
Summer harvest for Gatehouse Seeds.
Ripening seeds releasing from
Nigella damascena capsules.
Shaw Island July 2017.

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, it's long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January." 
American writer Hal Borland

Thomas Jefferson grew Devil in a Blue Dress on his plantation. Celia Thaxter planted it on her island. And Gertrude Jekyll spent years selecting a cultivar for color -- a pure, soft blue of a quality distinctively its own. With that distinguished past, it is now more commonly known as Love-in-mist. Franziska Reed Huxley tells of it as fine to plant in autumn but she prefers successive plantings in the spring. Many choices for those of us in USDA zone 8b.

♦︎ Seeds from an island garden are now processed in packets for the seed-shed racks, at the Gatehouse, Squaw Bay Road, Shaw Island.