Wow! what a difference in just three weeks! My last update was on June 14th. We had just had seen our first tomatoes – little tiny Oregon Stars. The weather turned a little cool about two weeks ago but soon … Continue reading →
I was inspired by WCS video garden tour. He did a tour of his vegetable garden that was fun to watch. My small Canon SD800 has a video mode so I made the following video of the garden in front … Continue reading →
Rosa glauca Our streak of rain-free days has come to an end. It rained Thursday bringing the streak to an end. We matched the previous record of 29 consecutive dry days in May-June. It was nice to hear the rain … Continue reading →
> Cerinthe major ‘Purpurascens’ I don’t have any particular color scheme in our garden. Our garden is totally a plantsman garden. No design. No rhyme. No scheme. There are plants scattered through the area. I love to walk the garden … Continue reading →
Yes, we have tomatoes! Three of the tomatoes on the driveway and one in the greenhouse have fruit. The first one to fruit is a new variety for us, Oregon Star. The plant looks a little funky. The leaves are … Continue reading →
Fremontodendron ‘California Glory‘ I love this time of the year in the garden. The garden just erupts in color. Yesterday I took the opportunity to walk around and take some pictures. I noticed right off that yellow was the predominant … Continue reading →
First harvest – lettuce Wow! What a different three warm weeks will make. We have been having gorgeous weather here in Seattle. It has been up in the 80’s this week. You can almost see the garden growing. I did … Continue reading →
This week’s PhotoHunt is plastic. This was very hard for me. I finally found the photo above of the garden nursery pots that we gathered up to take to recycle. G had a nursery for 10 years and we had … Continue reading →
The weather has started to warm up. Finally! Lows are still into the mid-low 40’s but we have had a couple of nights of low more around 50 degrees. High temperatures – a couple of days into the 60’s but … Continue reading →