The Saturday Post
The frigid temperatures that have had a hold on the mountains for months finally broke this week, ushering in the glorious prospect of spring.
My mind has turned to gardening -- and prayers that the perennials I planted last season come back.
I started searching for a gardening video to share with you today, ideally one of home gardens with lush greenery, spectacular colors and refreshing water features. But I ran across this and could search no further.
If you've not seen the movie "Greenfingers," one of Clive Owen's first films, you gotta rent it. It's from 2000 and inspired by the true story of a group of prisoners who hoped to become award-winning gardeners. The quirky, delightful film just may persuade even the brownest of thumbs to give gardening a shot.
Today's question:
What's the most unusual thing you grow in your garden? Or, if you don't garden, what's the most unusual thing you'd like to grow?
My answer: We have hops -- ya know, for beer -- growing in the backyard. It creates a lovely green arch over one of the pathways as it wends its way up, over and down the rebar posts. Toward the end of summer, funky little hops bobbles hang from overhead.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 Greenfingers, Saturday Post, hops 
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Reader Comments (4)
Well that looks like a good movie! I hate gardening. I would rather scrub the toilet with a toothbrush than garden! However, I LOVE gardens and I would love to have a bird of paradise plant.
Having moved into this little house and big front and back yard too late to get anything planted last year (except a $2,450.00 chain-link fence to corral a crazy Shiba Inu and an old horse-sized Akita and to slow down any entry of deer, bear, and foxes, all of whom I've seen just outside the fence) I have to start from scratch with my English cottage garden with hollyhocks, four o'clocks, petunias, marigolds, zinnias, roses and lilacs, all of which I want to have blooming their "usual" heads off this summer and next spring.
Okay, I MUST watch that movie! I love small little British films like that.
I'd like to have a small vineyard that I could make my own wine from. And when I say "I," I mean, having other people do it for me. Ha!
Going to netflix to add this movie to my queue as soon as I'm done here.
We had this giant tropical looking plant in our front yard that my husband planted last summer, we are still hoping it survived the winter, not that we had much of a winter... I love playing in the dirt!