Behold The Pumpkin
Pumpkins are grown mainly during the fall and into the winter, so why not add it to your garden this coming fall season. It maybe several month away, but do your research now so you can add it to your growing palette when it’s time. And when that time comes to harvest the pumpkin consider these ideas.
Even without its grinning visage, the jack-o-lantern pumpkin “urns” a smile. Its form is iconic. And its associations-trick or treat, autumn’s harvest, a full moon-are timeless. So, raise it high, as done here with a Cucurbita moschat, and pay glowing homage to its form.
A pumpkin was responsible for transporting Cinderella from a life of misery as housekeeper for her evil stepmother and step sisters. Is there a nobler vegetable? Pleasingly round and colorful, there is almost infinite variety in this class of vegetables. Like the genus Cucurbita, which includes squash, of which pumpkin are a round, edible type, and ornamental gourds. Stripes, speckles, and splashes of color that suggest modern art, mottled surfaces and unnervingly bumpy ones, carnival colors and ghostly hues are just the beginning. Each gourd, each squash, each pumpkin possesses its own dignified, if quirky, personality, and has the power to fill a room with equal parts humor and beauty. This fall, welcome a few Cucurbitas into your own home. Presented alone or in groups, they’re certain to transport you to a place of imaginary pleasure just by pairing them with each other or even along.
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