Our red yarrow in brilliant bloom and several pollinators frequent it. The adjacent lavender tries to photobomb into the image.
Our towns’ Canada 150 Garden Tour is Saturday July 8 and our humble place is a stop. If you’re in the area I invite you to take the tour. Your $10 ticket ($5 for members) will support the Dresden and District Horticultural Society as well as entitle you to a tour of nine quite different settings. We hope to see you!
We bought a milkweed plant this spring from our local nursery and organic garden. It has flowered very prolifically, and we noticed seed pods. We’ll try to propagate them and thereby add to our yards’ diversity.
A sunflowers’ butter yellow and dull brown stand out against the background of green and bright pinkish-white.
This giant dominates our vegetable garden. Over eight feet tall and still growing.
Our vegetable garden blesses us with a feast for our eyes as well as our palate. This clump of Johnny jump-ups volunteered to fill some otherwise unused space.
This handsome toad revealed itself when I entered the vegetable garden.
More of our gardens’ bounty. Butternut squash, sweet potatoes (and more to come!), and an experiment with corn. I think this is the only ear we got; we should do a little better next year once some trees are pruned which will allow more sunlight to reach the garden.
From upper right: Home-grown garlic; home-grown red and purple potatoes; and a ‘basket’ of vegetables – snap peas, cherry and grape tomatoes, vine tomatoes, bell peppers, and onion, and radishes – from the nursery at the edge of town. All organic goodness. How blessed we are to have our own little garden and a good nursery in our little town.
What we harvested today from our garden. Chocolate Cherry and Roma tomatoes, Jalapenos, tomatillos, a poblano and a sweet pepper. We are blessed to have such a productive garden. I am blessed to to have such an industrious partner who loves putting her green thumb to work.
These delightful Johnny Jump-ups are volunteers. They survived the harsh snowy winter and emerged entirely on their own. I’ve always loved these little beauties.
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