February 10, 2013 by Sincerely, Emily
If you really stop, take a deep breath and look around – you will see texture everywhere.
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I love taking photos and I love the different textures that I can capture. I particularly love texture in nature. The bark on trees, moss, leaves, old fences. I really like all the textures found outside in the gardens too.
What do you think this is?
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Under the snow, the beauty of sunlight on the path is waiting! -Xan
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Do you notice the texture of things around you?
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I love texture in my garden. I am not a great flower person and prefer green and texture and different heights. Its lovely to see unusual textures slowly revealed like an artichoke flower and the foliage on a bunya nut pine tree. Love the photos, is it kale?
Hi Fran – Yup – it’s kale. I’m with you on all the green textures in the garden. Love to watch them take shape and change. I do also love flowers. They draw in the pollinators that help my veggies grow.
My flowers tend to be things that give double benefits and that are self sowing and perennials that are hardy. I dont’ want to be fussing over borders etc. I want riots of things just organically melding together and adore grasses for their hardy lacy visual effect. I also love succulents and cacti but so did one of our ducks (before she went A.W.O.L. but she ate most of them before she went!). My sedum are just starting to recover and I am tentitively thinking about putting them into the garden as they are hardy, beautiful and apparently of no interest to the wallabies (as they are not being eaten in their pots). I want to replicate the Italian gardens that I used to see when I lived in Western Australia. The capital city of W.A. is Perth and Perth bleeds into another large city called Fremantle. My mum came from Fremantle and it was where all of the Italian imigrants settled and had their market gardens and the front gardens were an ecclectic mix of tomatoes, capsicums (peppers), chillis, eggplants and riots of herbs and flowers all mingling together. Those Italians knew what they were doing! I say, learn from what works, and the Italians knew what worked! Lots of horse manure as well… an old Italian once told me that regarding tomato success “don’t water them too much and use lots and LOTS of horse manure, it will make your soil good enough to eat” (all said with accompanying arm waving and passion
). I LOVE people of passion (although not sure I love them in the throes of anger… that is a passion that is best simmered and exploded at home and the Italians tend to take it out onto the sidewalk! 
). I am going to plant TONNES of kale this year as I adore the stuff. Not sure about all of this new age massaging etc. but I just eat it raw from the plant, lightly steamed, shredded and used like cabbabe in spring rolls and in just about everything (might bung it into my green smoothies 
).
me too – my flowering plans have a dual purpose and I plant drought tolerant and natives as much as I can and nurture the wild ones if they come up in the gardens or I transplant them there. I love your description of the Italian immigrant gardens and the passions that simmered and exploded out onto the sidewalk. Raw, steamed or roasted – love love kale.
beatiful pictures!
Thanks for stopping by. I just took a peek at your blog and really like some of your abstract paintings. Have a great day.
I would guess the first one is a kale leaf.
Jenny you are right!! I love all the different green colors and the textures all wrapped up in that one plant. And it tastes good too! hanks for stopping by.