A Sunny Saturday Morning

Welcome Jessica, I'm glad you are here.

I've been a litle remiss in posting, life keeps getting in the way blogging. The nerve!

It's a beautiful sunny morning, so I grabbed the camera and my coffee and stepped out the back door. There is something for everyone this morning.

I'll start with the vegetables, but if you wish to jump to the flowers, Scroll down.

Green beens starting to blossom

Hairy Tomato blossoms

Cukes growing up the mesh trellis, so far so good!

A healthy start

The peppers are also doing well.

Giant Marconi (sweet)

Hot banana

Greens are a mixed bag. They are growing well, but something is eating them, I will put up a short fence this weekend.

Chard, lettuce, and shallot

Lettuce is happy

Rabbit(?) damage



Eggplant



Green tomatoes in the Growbox

All in all I am rather pleased with the Squarefoot garden attempt. So far so good.

Flower Power!
This week the lilies burst onto the scene.

Good view of Stamen and Carpel. The Anthers will stain fabric, be careful!

I cut this Clematis down to 6" tall last fall. It's over 8' tall now.

One of my favorites, Coreopsis "Moonbeam" just starting to bloom, in a week or so it will be a golden carpet.

That's what I'm up to this morning, now I'm off on a field trip. More about that later!

Until next time, Keep Digging & Eat Well!

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Garden in Transition

I suppose it is always in transistion. One of the goals when I started, was to always have something in bloom from thaw through frost. Here we are in early June, the shrub roses are far past peak,  bearded iris are done, tulips and crocii a distant memory.

So what is there to look forward to? I took a walk and here is what I found.

The Clematis is starting to take off. The oldest and largest of the five in the garden.

A side shot of the west sun bed. The little iris, coreopsis, and Knock-out roses are doing their thing.

 

The Iris make me think of birds in flight.

 

The Knock-outs are very reliable and the only rose I have that will go all summer long.

 

While the coreopsis has not bloomed yet, it is about to and is interesting.

  

Moving on to the back garden the lilies have bloomed with all the rain. Tucked in, they are one of the oldest plants in the garden.

 

Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. (Name the movie, and get props on the blog!)

 

No, closer.

 

One plant that I continue to enjoy is a bi-annual foxglove, but not sure, it's been 3 years. Not as impressive as the foxglove on the west walkway, it is lovely in its own aspect.

 

 

On the way to the west walkway, there is magical door in the ivy at the base of the black locust tree. If you are very patient, something wonderful might happen. But such is life, or?

 

Out on the west walk the Beardtongue is in bloom. Only the second year, but is seems to like it here.

 

Like snow drifts in summer.

 

So there we are for now. I wonder what happens next?