bloomerama

campsis, clematis, daylilies, crocosmia jostling for space.

summer blooms

Bishop Landalff dahlia

by the way

The shrub below-- if you can call it that--  is sorbaria "sem" and is supposed to be more mannerly than the species. Still, quite a piggy.

it's summer!

i know. i suck. haw...
nevertheless...a post for good weather. Here are plants in bloom! My trees are huge--everything is bursting. It's nice, but also, lotta work. Campsis radicans, " Madame Galen" is starting to smother the 'turret" and all the lilies and hollyhox etc are 9 ft tall.  The trees are going to swallow me up.  I got a new acer palmatum, "Burgundy Lace"  --it's going strong. I dislike the name, and so ignored it. But it's one of the most gorgeous maples with it's copper / green / bronze. Happy i gave it a try.

   

finally the snow

CUZ IT'S A LITTLE late to finally
get some...but still appreciated.

yup

pix.  it's autumn, and man. Very gorgeous colors this year. This is golden raintree.

comments on 2013

AMERICANS ARE EXPERIENCING chaos and our leaders are acting like idiots, and perhaps Rome is definitely getting scorched.  :\   I looked back at my first musings here, and in spite of myself, I'm making the experience I wanted here, growing plants and helping pollinators, and just loving the beauty I see here. But I am facing some pretty hard work this year, as I will now finally be able to take my yield to farmers market, etc.  In the face of all that is happening this year, I am thrilled to be heading in this direction, as it is the right one.   :B

october light

ON MY FADING hops vine.

morning dew

ON KATSURA LEAF. We're getting the dewey mornings now.  

please help yourself

TO ALL THE Acorns you would like!
:B

yellow wax bells

OR IN PROPER LATIN, Kirengeshoma Palmatum, one of the most charming shrubberies I have in the garden.

never too late

4-yr old Sorbaria 'Sem" graces the shed.   ...thanks Jojo.

TO POST ON your blog! I apologize to anyone who was wondering. ;B.
Since April, I've grown heirloom vegetables, planted perennials, (many donated by friends!), created a pathway to the bird garden designed for me by roost landscapes in west seattle,
improved the potager and raised beds, and painted almost everything, either 'dried tomato' red, or my favorite green-gray, 'dragon's breath.' And off the Farmlet, I'm gearing up to farm flowers for local market with a co-op garden.  I'm beat!  :D   more to come...

korean spice bush

...now in bloom has orchid-y fragrance---wonderful by my front door!

greetings from 2013

JUST SENDING HELLOS and that I'm still here. Will post more in the growing season.

just pix

of summer garden activity here at the farmlet....i'm busy with it, hence the pin-drop quiet on posts.  

these are a few things growing in the Turret™ planter, that Dozer is running toward in backg. 

spring sprung

Yes, indeedeee.  so many plants providing color and beauty. But also, come the weeds. Before I put up more pix I must mow, and weed!  help!!

forcing cherry stems

u bet.

oooooohh sorry!

almost 3 months? since last post? sheesh. kindof a chaotic winter this year, that's for sure.  I couldn't resist the blue shadows on the barnlet, and then I found my first crocus. Spring approaches!