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| Aconitum carmichaelii 'Arendsii' 26 September 2025 and print of Aconitum napellus |
A quote I often heard from my grandmother comes to mind these days when I find myself idle and bed rotting with my cats on the bed. The quote: “El diablo cuando no tiene nada que hacer con el rabo espanta moscas,” translates to, “The devil when he is bored he swats flies with his tail.”
Sometime in the year 2000 I did not know what to do in my Kerrisdale darkroom so I tried something that worked beautifully the first time. I would place plants from my garden on my medium format enlarger as if they were negs. I became crazy and made many of them in 8x1 and a few more as 11x14s. Then I stopped doing it and by the next year I swatted flies by scanning the plants on my Epson flatbed scanner.
The special significance of today’s scan is that the plant was one of my Rosemary’s favourites because she loved blue. People who are botanically inclined will tell you that this plant known as monkshood is highly poisonous. It is used in one of the Brother Cadfael novels.
What is also attractive of this plant is that it is shade tolerant and it begins to flower when most of the garden now is on its way to resting until next spring,
