If you haven’t noticed, I’ve taken great delight in doing what I have recently dubbed “Garden Mash-ups”. I love mixing nail polish and your favorite perennials. Or farm work and that new Snoop Dogg beat.
Here’s the latest: Garden and Movie Mash-ups.
Tonight we feature, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I was thinking… what would this movie’s garden look like?
Here’s what I came up with.
Charley and his broke-ass family enjoy yet another evening of Cabbage Soup. I’d like to think it’s from this little guy, my favorite cabbage of all Savoy Cabbage ‘S. Michele or any cultivar from the savoy brood. They really do make yummy soups, and are easy to grow once germinated. Germination seems to take a bit longer than other types of Cruciferae, but we are gardeners and are very patient, right? And by patient I mean you can go find six packs of them at your local nursery, giving you at least 8 weeks of lead time on your growing season. But don’t tell, pretend you grew them from seed.
I love the scene where he’s (creepy!) softly singing to himself in the candy garden, while sipping from his freshly plucked Daffodil tea cup and saucer. Then, at the end of the (creepy!) song, after his decrescendo, he bites off a piece of the Daffodil tea cup, with a loud and gratifying crunch! For your own Daffodil… pick a double petaled one. Those are my favorite, and so fragrant.
The Chocolate Cosmo you all know and love… and hopefully Cerinthe, too.
“If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it….”
those mushrooms are making me think a lot
I love this mashup. That movie is a little creepy in many ways, now that I think about it as an adult, but still one of my childhood favorites.
So that’s what a properly grown Cerinthe looks like.
I grew some, from seed, this year, but they’ve turned out to be pathetic little things so far. A woman I saw on a TV program said they can be difficult in her climate/soil, and she grows them in pots, but she still didn’t show us the end result.
I think you nailed it! Today is a lovely day, and it would only be better if I could tour this garden… Perhaps I’ll settle for baking chocolate chip cookies and eating them in my own more earthly garden
Vanessaqua! You finally commented!
Meems: Yes, muy creepy but I love it.
Robur: Yep, cerinthe can be an asshole sometimes… I usually get good results from them, but sometimes they can just wither. When they are happy they are incredibly full and healthy, lush looking plants.
Zoe: Thanks! Yes, make those cookies!
Chocolate cosmos is a perfect fit! I like your Mash ups idea. Your choices for that movie are spot on!
Next Feature: coming soon!
Your collage is well put together. I love the color combos: a prelude to autumn! Chocolate cosmos ( chocolate anything!) is one of my faves.
Your articles are colorful just like you and your gorgeous gardens you create. Enjoyable and helpful information.
Those mushrooms look just like the ones from that totally professional photo shoot with the famous photog and the super famous gardening rock star! Nice mash-up!
Oh, ya that time where I was verbally and emotionally abused by you! “uhhhhh that last picture was horrible”.
I try to only get abuse from my family, Carla. I expect better from you.
That’s hilarious! There would have to have a few Echium in bloom for extra creepy sexual references. Love the site make-over!
These mash-ups are lovely….what a good idea. I’m stoked to have found your site — I like the garden/sex/irreverent/beauty mash-up in itself — and it’s always cool to find more locals (I’m just up in SF) involved in similar endeavors. One question: Is Wildflower Farms open to visits from the public? I’d love to head south and check out your operations some day. Best, katie
Thanks! No Wildflower Farms is my landscaping company and our farm is not open to the public… however we will be doing seasonal plant sales so I’ll put you on the email list. It’s fun.. plants, booze and music.
Thanks Megan, … echium would have been perfect!
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This week’s gardening program on the BBC has just done a feature about Ronald Dahl’s garden.
He was a very keen gardener. Pics below. Points to note are – the white hut with yellow door, which is where he did all his writing. And the huge vegetable garden with raised beds. He was a very keen onion grower…
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Fun post! I adore Willy Wonka ♥ – especially the darker side. Roald Dahl ♥ was my favorite childhood author.
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That freakazoid Mr Wonka always seemed a little sadistic to me but I guess he DID spread cheer in his own way. = )
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