Cocktail Garden Future Additions

It’s that wonderful time of the gardening year, when all things seem possible. Packages of seeds are like little bags of hope. I’m planting some old favorites, and am very [...]

The Drunken Botanist

Get this book. If you are interested in cocktails at all, you will enjoy The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart. If you are also a gardener, you will be over [...]

Tough & True Herbal Friends

A really good day for me is one where I only leave the house to visit the garden, and then spend hours creating new cocktails, herbal syrups and zippy infusions [...]

Preserving for Future Cocktails

The squirrels and I have been busy. While they are burying all sorts of goodies in our garden, I’m bringing the herbal goodies inside to dry, and use later. Right [...]

Scented Geranium Sugar

Scented Geranium Sugar -

I remember at the tail end of last winter wishing there were more herbs and edibles available to use from our garden for my cocktails. Sage and [...]

Harvesting Bitters Ingredients

Harvesting Bitters Ingredients -

I planted nigella or love-in-a-mist for the seeds. The flowers and the seed pods are handsome as well. I needed nigella seeds  a while back for a [...]

Gardening, Canning & Drinking

This week absolutely blew by. Our garden, and all of its’ bounty is keeping me hopping. I don’t want any food from it to go to waste. If I’m not [...]

Playing Hooky

On sunny days, all I want to do is work outside in the garden. Today I played hooky out in the garden. I watched the honey bees do all the [...]

Lemon Balm Bonanza

I have a bumper crop of lemon balm. A bounty, a bonanza, a bush-sized plant. I’m figuring out ways to use it in my cocktail creations. I made ice cubes [...]

Tempting Tea Cocktail

Tempting Tea Cocktail -

Here’s a twist to try the next time you make some iced tea. Add a few sprigs of your favorite fresh, organic herbs, maybe a couple of [...]

Beautiful Borage

Beautiful Borage -

Last summer, I added a borage plant to our edibles garden. I wanted to learn more about edible flowers, and borage has captivating blue blossoms. It reseeded itself [...]

World’s Slowest Rhubarb

Gardening teaches me a lot of patience. In the big picture, having more patience is very useful. In the small picture, it doesn’t turn my rhubarb red! My new rhubarb [...]