The goldfinches have gleaned many of the seeds out of this sunflower head in our front yard.
Tag: gardening
Brilliant
This brilliant spiderwort happily lives in our yard adjacent to a tree stump.
Multiplied
From the few examples planted in a flower front bed a few years ago, the Purple Coneflowers have needed no care at all and multiplied in a way very pleasing to us, and to pollinators both resident and passing through. There’s a honeybee on a flower in the lower right quadrant.
Harvest
Our garlic is in, forty five bulbs worth. That is enough to plant this fall and have plenty to use in cooking well into, if not all the way through, winter. While probably not enough to be completely self sufficient, it is enough to reduce our dependence on store bought garlic.
Shelter
Violets shelter in shade, trying to avoid oppressive late May heat.
Soon.
Spring will be here soon and our seed order arrived today. Radishes, several different lettuce varieties, snow peas. Buckwheat to sow in the half of the vegetable garden that will lay fallow this year. Flowers including many natives to sow this fall, replacing a good good portion of the turfgrass in the front yard.
Giant
This giant sunflower, about three meters tall, dominates the garden’s skyline.
