last of hollyhox

MY LOVELY HOLLIES.  One of the only old fashioned flowers ilike.  BUT BLACK ONLY. If i see a pale yellow or sick pink, it's OUTTA HERE.   :B

my farmed flowers

IN EAST WENATCHEE, there are some wonderful folks with big land, who encourage growers to use it. Flicker Farm, the big vegetable market garden on the hillside, is the growing concern of my pals ken & yvette davis.  Which is how I discovered the Baguleys, and their generous experiment.  I have a little plot right below the Flicker dill patch. So I am starting florage™ this year, with the hope of going to market and florists all summer next year with foliage, flowers, stems and all kinds of stems useful to local florists who want local flowers.

Zinnias, gomphrena puffs, sunflower.

Gomphrena

Allium drumsticks, dried 

simple and summery in an olive oil can.

more july blooms

EVEN IN THE hot temps... the little stargazer lily surprised me, and i almost missed it behind the big cannas.
           

"little" Sem

Sorbaria 'Sem.' supposed to be tamer than the species. The early spring growth has those orangey tips. really nice.

chicago apache

baby robin

this little fledgling made it out of the nest last night.

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...