A greenhouse, of sorts.

The indoor greenhouse...the thing in here I most want to live is the Daphne Odora. I discovered this amazing smelling plant at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens. It drew me from 1/2 mile away until I found it & took a tiny flower to find out what it is. I was lucky to have one planted at my last house & took 2 cuttings in hopes of keeping it in my garden. So far, they seem to be doing pretty good. I have a mock orange tree in here too, I am hoping it will live because it has a really neat fountain shape as an adult shrub that I love & will put next to the back corner of the shed or greehouse. It's a fun one to duck around when walking around the garden.
As I type here in Jon's office, my cat Coco has a cute little habit of getting closer to me. She secretly wants control...but I still think it's pretty adorable.
It was a cool dewy morning today & the overcast grey sky is promising to make it a good day for the new plantings.
Autumn Crocus in full boom. I planted these with some spring Narcissis & Tall elegant deep pink tulips, they can all trade off blooming through the spring & fall.
Our garden wheel...the moss probably wont make it, since it is planted now in full hot sun. This will function as a stepping stone at the start of the herb garden. I saw a green tree frog hanging out in the bottom of the hole the other day-cool!! I was going to plant a ground cover in there, but maybe I will leave it to the froggy.
A hot pink geranium I inherited when my grandad passed away this year. He and my grandmother would winter over geraniums every year, bringing them out in the spring from under their house. They just seemed huge back then. The smell of the geranium leaf as well as the smell of marigold flowers are some of my first memories in their garden. They had a lovely garden in the Yakima Valley and I used to play there each summer. I remember smelling the geraniums and marigolds on my hands for hours afterwards. I thought it was pretty neat to get these plants from him. I want to plant marigolds in my new garden, probably in the rose garden this year. It will be a first for me. I can already smell them.
Sweet woodruff transplant that looks to be thriving! Hurray!
This rock has a lot of green in it when wet...I love it.
The hot red stem of this Fireglow euphorbia just doesn't show up well enough on film. I am really happy to have this plant in my garden...it makes a bright cheery statement at the back of the herb garden against the fence.
My cape blanco sedum...hope it will root down here...I can't get enough of the pink & dusty blue green chalkyness of it's coloring. Truly a gem.
Pork and beans with sempervivums. go babies go!