And the apple trees are loaded too.  Now we just have to keep the deer and the squirrels from helping themselves.  

 

We don't mind sharing some, but they tend to take all.  Oh, and the pear tree has ONE pear on it.  ;P

 

Even still, I love our gardens!!!

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

 

It looks like we are going to have peaches this year.  The trees are full of them.  

 

We were a little concerned that those two cold days in March damaged the blooms, but they are fine.

 

Not so with the blueberries.  They got zapped by the cold.  Oh well, next year...

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

This year the Ox-eye Daisies have taken over our old garden.  They are SO pretty, we can't weed them out.  

 

They stand about 2 feet tall, and tickle my legs when I walk through them.  

 

Fine, they can stay there, as long as they don't encroach on my squashes.  

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

 

I wish this was growing in my yard, but it is just around the corner, close enough to catch the scent.  I love the smell of honeysuckle.  

 

Over the years we have noticed that day one blooms are bright white, and day two blooms are vanilla.  Same smell.  

 

I collect a few flowers and add them to my water bottle, and in a couple hours they have infused my water with that lovely smell.  

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

We are still in the Wild Garden.  These are Fire Pinks.  Called pinks, not because they are pink, but because they are in the same family as pinks.  This family includes carnations, bachelor buttons, chickweed, and pinks.  These are the most beautiful red!!!  And they are in the same bed as the orange lilies.  

 

Happiness in our garden!!!

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

 

Our orange lilies are blooming in the wild garden.  

 

The Wild Garden is a patch of cool stuff that we just let go.  Years ago we planted these lilies in this garden up near the tree.  Since then, they have migrated to the middle of the garden.  My guess is the bulbs travel downhill through the mole tunnels.  How else could they move that far?  The daffodils in this bed have done the same thing.  Interesting, though, we never know where they will show up.  

 

Oh, at first I planted this pot of lilies in the terraced beds across the driveway, and they were beautiful for a couple years.  Then the deer discovered how tasty they are, and now we have none up there.  Just the ones behind the fence in the wild garden.  

 

I just love the orange;  so bright and cheery.  

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

I just got this catalog, and thought it kinda late in the season to be buying seeds.  I wondered WHY they sent me a catalog in May.

 

Well, the inside of the front cover answered my question.  May is when you start sowing seeds for your fall and winter garden.  Seeds need about 6 weeks to get big enough to put into the garden, then another 100-200 days or so to produce their produce.  So if you don't start early enough, it gets too cold, and lots of plants freeze.  

 

I am ready to start seeds for my fall and winter garden.  I love the cool season crops:  Beets, Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Kale, Leeks, Spinach, and Swiss Chard.  

 

So exciting!!!  I can stretch this out past November 15 (our frost date.)

 

HAPPY MAY INDEED!!!

 

 

 

Look who's blooming on our front railing.  Clematis that we planted the first year we lived here.  

 

Clematis like their feet in the shade and their heads in the sun.  So we planted it under the deck, and guide it up the post to the railing.  See the red string?  The leaves twirl around the string and the whole thing climbs up.  It's up to about 7 feet now.

 

We love it.  Unfortunately, the deer do too, and last year we didn't get much.  So we set up wire barriers, so they can't reach it.  

 

And this year she is gorgeous!!!

 

HAPPY MAY!!!

 

Look who we saw in the park this week.  It's JACK!!!  Jack-in-the-Pulpit.  

 

We know where the colony is, so we always look for them.

 

HAPPY MAY!!!

 

My beautiful arugula is going to seed.  I guess it's the first sowing of seeds.  I've got two crops going at once.  

 

It is so thick I can hardly pick it without pulling out whole plants.  

 

We couldn't eat this much arugula in a year!! Love it!!!

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!