One of my favourites.

Of all flowers, Johnny Jump-ups are one of my favourites. We are blessed to have them in abundance.

Favourite.

Forget-me-nots are among my most favourite flowers.

flower

Await.

Our started vegetable plants await planting. Low temperatures during several upcoming nights come uncomfortably close to freezing so we are holding off. For now, we bring them out during the day to harden them off.

The rosemary (upper centre) will stay in its pot as will the lemongrass (upper right).

The tomato patch.

The three Chocolate Cherry Tomatoes we planted have been more successful than we anticipated. We have picked more than a dozen pints’ worth so far and have many more pints’ worth on the way.

WordPress is not allowing me to upload the photo. Imagine a jungle of three plants, six feet tall by six feet wide. Imagine crawling on elbows and knees into the jungle, looking for ripe tomatoes. This is the happy problem we have.

 

 

Bounty.

Twenty minutes’ time yielded this bounty from the Chocolate Cherry Tomato patch.

In bloom, 4

Gaillardia.

In bloom, 3

Cherry tomatoes, in bloom and fruiting.

In bloom, 2

Tickseed abloom.

In bloom.

Many of the plants in our garden are in bloom now. Here, the spirea.

Almost

This strawberry was almost ready to pick.