The dill has exploded too.  It is taller than I am, so I took this picture of me with the dill.  I love it all!!!  

 

Glad to be back in my garden.  

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

When I left for Virginia a couple weeks ago the leeks were in bud.  When I got back they were in full bloom.  They are so amazing!  And beautiful!!!  Put your fingertips together in a ball, and that's how big they are!!!  They are fabulous!!!

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

 

 

We picked 5 quarts of blueberries on Wednesday, and another 4 quarts on Thursday.  Shannon is coming on Saturday to pick blueberries, and will take them home with her.  I think she is planning on buying a new freezer just for blueberries. I get it!  We had to get another freezer a couple years ago because we had so many blueberries.  I guess there are worse troubles.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

The catnip has exploded.  It has taken over this whole section of the yard.  Fine!!!  That much we don't have to mow.  The deer leave it alone, and it is kinda pretty against the rails.  

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

I was only gone two weeks and look what happened.  The mullein shot up a few feet and bloomed.  It is fabulous!!!

 

Lots of other things in the garden exploded while I was gone too;  I am excited to show you.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

OK, I am not in the picture for perspective, but as I am taking this picture, the tallest flower spike is at my eye level.  

 

They are starting to do it!!!  I won't be here for the next two weeks, but when I get back I will get Jon to take my picture with the Mullein.  It is fabulous!!!

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

This is just a small section of all the ox-eye daisies blooming just outside my garden fence.  They make me smile every day.  When it is dark, they look like stars in the heavens, and when it is light, they just make me smile.  

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

This is the Mahonia in the park.  In the sunshine:  the berries are dark blue and the stems that hold the berries are red.  It is truly striking.  I love seeing it when we walk in the park.  Spring, summer, fall, and winter.  But especially in summer with these great blue berries.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

 

We might have to open a stand on the corner, because when the blueberries start getting blue, we are going to be inundated.  We only planted eight bushes back in 2010, but they have really grown.  And this year they are loaded with berries.

 

I love it!!!

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

 

Just look at the pears.  They are doing really great now too.  

 

I guess everybody in the orchard loved all the rain in April and May.  I know, I did!!!

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!