Last post from Moss Mountain near Little Rock.
We leave the house heading to the vegetable gardens and the rose garden. The wood on the front of this buggy is so polished that it is a mirror for some bushes.
These are the bushes reflected on the buggy. Unusual containers – usually hanging wire baskets are filled with sphagnum moss to hold in the soil.
We walk on a road by the parking lot…
past some fields for sheep. These are the Katahdin breed of sheep that don’t have wool but hair, so they don’t have to be sheared.
The entrance to the vegetable garden.
These small buildings are probably tool sheds.
The light was strong by late morning and washed out the pictures. Different kinds of lettuce along with chives? In the background is a long wire archway. It is tall enough to walk through, like a tunnel. If you have watched P. Allen Smith’s TV show, you know he uses these to grow vine plants, like squash.
The plant growing up the pole is Hyacinth Bean. I asked the young girl who was our escort if they were edible. She replied that she guessed so since they were planted in the vegetable gardens.
I have only seen them grown for the beautiful flowers in summer, so I looked on the internet. From what I gleamed, if you eat the beans when they are young and green, that’s okay. But older dry bean have a high amount of cyanogenic glycosides, which are not good for you. However, these are also found in seeds of some fruits, in some vegetables, and nuts. Mature or dry beans should not be eaten raw. The process to cook them sounds a lot like boiling pinto beans. All this is from a book Eat the Weeds.
More than you wanted to know?
As we leave the vegetable garden, we pass between two stag statues and walk down a steep path towards the rose garden.
This overlook is at the end of the gravel path. To the left and right are arching walkways down the hill.
This view looks back up to the lookout spot.
The rose gardens are formal with an European look.
This was early May, so some of the roses were not in full bloom. Maybe that’s why I didn’t find any scented ones.
Really like this feature – a castle look.
Leaving the rose garden, we take a lower pathway back to the house.
It seems that much thought was put into the views of the house from all angles.
The screened porches on the first and second floors at back of the house.
I hope you have enjoyed the pictures from this part of our trip. Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog.
“Know who you are and be who you are.” P. Allen Smith