"...nothing will grow in it",
he proudly answered
the retired gentleman
"there's bark in it
to prevent the weeds"

- noticing me there,
stopping to listen -

"so, useless for your flowerpots"

Corn Sow-thistle,
Göteborg, May 27th 2002

Sonchus arvensis Åkermolke i juni i augusti och i januari Eva Ekeblad, 2002

as if he knew
about the s-weeds in my flowerpots...


well, the sowthistle from outdoors (same place as the june sample last year) looks a lot better than the two leaves grown from seed (from the january sample) indoors... full of leaf mines and aphids.




and just because there's space,
one more snapshot:
delivery of turf rolls.

it's the block closest to the mall
being remodeled fancy