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Galega x hartlandii 'Lady Wilson' On Monday, our garden was included in the HPSO Study Weekend. This is a four-day event that includes speakers, plant/art sales and garden tours. The event rotates every two years between the cities of Portland, Seattle, Victoria B.C. and Vancouver B.C. It will be 2033 before Portland hosts again. I toured the Portland gardens on Friday and Saturday and will share some photos in my next post. The weather was perfect on those days. Not so much on Monday, the day for the Vancouver, Washington gardens tour, and by late afternoon, the temperature had reached 94. However, it wasn't too bad in the first part of the day, and that's when we received the most visitors. We didn't have an exact count, but making an estimate based on our guestbook, I would say around 200 people. It was a hectic but fun day! We had a lot of visitors from Seattle and areas north of us as attendees were making their way home. Every time we open our garden, there ...
Looks and sounds great! Radish sandwiches are good too!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great-looking salad, Phillip.
ReplyDeleteWas the taste sharp/spicy with all those radishes? Or did the cucumber cool things off?
YUM! Sounds great! I have a radish and tuna salad recipe with lemon juice, salt, olive oil, parsley, celery & green onions. But I'm always up for another recipe, so thanks for sharing! Did you know radishes are natural antibiotics?
ReplyDeleteCarol, believe it or not, I've never had one!
ReplyDeleteAaron, yes a bit spicy but the cucumbers too cool it down.
Katherine, I love tuna salad and would like to find that recipe!
Thanks for the idea, because I do indeed have too many radishes!
ReplyDeleteMama used to say that Radishes had made more gardeners than anything else because they come up fast and produce in a short time, very encouraging.
ReplyDeleteI put radishes in cole slaw. They give a little bite and a little color.