Garden Pics
Aug. 20th, 2010 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
botiasI don't think this was probably the best summer for flowers. It definitely wasn't a good butterfly or bumblebee year though the dragonflies patrolled diligently, tempting Jones to feats of feline acrobatics. Still, I enjoyed my garden very much.
Globe thistle, black and blue sage and wild oregano
Could that be Alien Sex Pollen TM?? Cool succulent that looks to be from Mars, but of course is not.
My new rock garden/bed thingies
The perennial bed. Agastache, Echinacea, and tiger lilies in the foreground.
I think it's pretty.
Which is just as well, since I have to look at it all the time.
The vegetable beds this year. That one leaf has got to be 2 feet across--the boards of the bed are 1 foot wide--that's the yellow crookneck squash. The zucchini turned out to have neat silver patterns on the leaves, and makes plenty of tasty green zuccs. Last year my attempts at growing squash failed. This year, armed with knowledge and organic fertilizer, I have done better. The second bed is heat lovin' plants. You can see they are not lovin' it. Ah well. *shrugs* Purely in the interest of crop rotation, I may be forced to leave these beds fallow and plant annual flowers in them for the next three years.
Globe thistle, black and blue sage and wild oregano
Could that be Alien Sex Pollen TM?? Cool succulent that looks to be from Mars, but of course is not.
My new rock garden/bed thingies
The perennial bed. Agastache, Echinacea, and tiger lilies in the foreground.
I think it's pretty.
Which is just as well, since I have to look at it all the time.
The vegetable beds this year. That one leaf has got to be 2 feet across--the boards of the bed are 1 foot wide--that's the yellow crookneck squash. The zucchini turned out to have neat silver patterns on the leaves, and makes plenty of tasty green zuccs. Last year my attempts at growing squash failed. This year, armed with knowledge and organic fertilizer, I have done better. The second bed is heat lovin' plants. You can see they are not lovin' it. Ah well. *shrugs* Purely in the interest of crop rotation, I may be forced to leave these beds fallow and plant annual flowers in them for the next three years.
