Gardening, anyone?
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I'm loving all the photos.. :-)
I have been going through pictures on the internet for ideas for my beloved succulents ( my babies :-)) , and have fallen in love with this succulent "living picture", which I've attached .. Hubby is a good handyman and promises to make it for me.. Now I just have to head out to find a suitable teapot and cup 😃
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Beautiful sunflower, they always make you smile.
Lucy I love that idea, show the finished project.
This year I decided to plant scarlet runner beams in my barrels
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A new yellow zone 3 rose, forget the name.0 -
pink double poppy - these volunteer in the vegetable garden.0 -
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while many of you other folks in other parts of the country have had flowers in bloom for months, around here, July is when everything comes into fruition.
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Wild day lily - I love these.
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Bee balm. Lookforward, I too planted lots of scarlet runner beans, I like them on my vegetable garden fence, (as well as morning glory)
- and the darn bunny that has been living in the garden has eaten most of them :-(
The hummingbirds will have to content themselves with bee balm, comfrey, jewelweed and their other favorites this year, because last week a BEAR climbed the stairs to an upper deck and smashed the hummingbird feeder on to the patio below! This was 5 am, the dogs went crazy, by the time my husband got up and out, he was gone, but there were sugary footprints going down the stairs!
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clematis
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mallow with yarrow
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Flaviarose- I grew up in CT (think I told you that already) and remember my gardens from July. Like I said, I may just move in (oh but those winters, I remember those too......)
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clematis and more plums. I could smell them several feet away in the garden. They are ready! I've been eating and giving away recklessly. Tomorrow making jam.
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Flaviarose like you my garden starts to bloom in July.
Jackie good looking plums
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Jackbirdie, Plums look wonderful. The raccoons get them all around here.
Flavia, Your flowers are just gorgeous. It's so nice when everything finally decides to bloom it's head off.
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OK Jackbirdie. I've come to the conclusion there is nothing you can't grow in Oregon!
Such pretty pictures, everyone. All the plants in my back yard are looking pretty nice. I'll have to take some pictures. My front is suffering a bit now. Too dry perhaps? We cut down a big crabapple tree this spring and I think it provided some shade for things that now are not looking so good. I'll try to water more and hope that will help.
Lucy I also adore all the succulent ideas that are out there. Have you seen the walls that people plant. Wouldn't that make a great patio screen! So pretty. Maybe that's what I should have planted in my south facing front porch pot this hot summer. You just never know if we're going to have a hot summer or sometimes we have a cloudy cool one.
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Twohobbies.. Yes.. I love the succulent walls too.. 😘.. I love them every -which -way..by themselves , in displays and in amongst other plants in the garden beds as well..
Flavia.. Loved your photos..
Katy... Those plums look yummy ! :-)
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here's what I did with the plums, besides leaning over the sink, dripping juice into the sink!
Added vanilla and cardamom pods to the jam and the liqueur
And I still have more plums! I will probably make more jam and more tarts. One cannot have too many plum tarts.
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I'm coming over for some of that plum crisp! Yum! Although I did make a treat last weekend.
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oh that pie looks SO good! Love the festive stars for the holiday. Very creative!
Ice cream, whipped cream, or solo?
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Jackbirdie thankfully, you've also got enough friends, now drooling all over their keyboards, that you needn't worry about who's going to eat (and drink) all that with you.
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Have been away from the boards due to crazy busy work schedule.
Beaver update. . .they attacked the other side of my hill two weeks ago. We now have beaver traps on our lakeside. They did catch a couple of them on the other side. We cried uncle anyway and cut the rest of the roses down to a foot tall. These must be smart beavers after all because they haven't come back since we took the fun (or maybe food) out of their midnight forays.
Dh swears he's seen a hummingbird finally, so going to move my feeders away from my now huge butterfly bushes and see if I can catch the hummers with my camera.
Scottie
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Just got on to check out the pics.... soooo envious! Spring - and the all the blooms - came early this year, so now in July, everything is looking tired and sort of naked...
So wish I could have more plants in pots... just have to rig them up to the drip system. Hand-watering takes me an hour or more after dinner.
Just got a call from Best Buy - they are going to replace my computer, plus restore all the data and functions, at no charge to me. Yay!
Will take a few days before I can take the old equipment in... I have a.... "procedure" on Tuesday at Kaiser that takes some advanced prep, and I won't be able to leave the house, if you get my drift!!!
Keep those pics coming... I can always look at them on my iPad when I'm, uh, "prepping".....
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Jackbirdie I let myself have the pie but I didn't go so far as to top it with ice cream like I would love to.
Scottie I finally found my hummingbird feeder and got it up this weekend. Now I wait.
Blessings it's kind of dull and dry here too. Even my annuals are dried out on the south facing side,
so I watered and trimmed them down yesterday hoping they will spring back to life. My pots on the north side look good though.
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So hot and dry here(except the air is wet). I'm just hoping my perennials survive. After removing a tree, my hostas and heuchera are suffering.
Our house got skunked once. Possibly under the deck? It smelled for a week. That was close, Teka.
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Beautiful photos ladies 😃
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Lovely pictures. Teka oh no that is awful, we don't have skunks near us. starting to get vegetables from the garden now.
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Lookforward.. Love your produce 😃
Teka.. Coming from Australia I don't understand " skunked by the other skunk " ??!!? 😱😃
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We seem to have every vermint under the sun this summer. . .beavers, copperhead, raccoons, rabbits and Dh swears he saw a Doe with three (not a typo) fawns on our front lawn. I'm waiting for them to come back so I can photograph them. Something is definitely eating all my hostas though.
Meanwhile they don't call it HotLanta for nothing. Uggh. We need rain.
Scottie
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