Beauty

The garden has seen a lot of action this month. Planting, design, transplanting, clean-up and of course, my new favorite: hammock time! For now, let's look at the lovely things...and soon again I will show the progress and changes.









Feverfew is new & will be so nice for bouquets.

Campanula Tricta-something. I better look it up. I just discovered Campanulas and I wonder how I missed them all these years.

This thing is killing me...it is so good...Sundrop...but look at the hot red, ahh!

Knock-out Rainbow rose. A good find, has replaced some ugliness in the garden, more on that later.


Newly planted pot on the back patio...sunflowers, creeping jenny, sweet peas, lettuce.

Peace Rose.

Ocean Spray. A native shrub that wildlife will be loving a few years.

Vine Maple in the compost garden...please grow soon so we can have some shade.

This is a happy spot. Growing Sunflowers, Thai Basil and Verbena Bonariensis.

Indian Prune tree...I think this one is so cool. With a frog house (half buried pot) at the base.

An unknown tree is growing...it came in on a freebie from a garden tour last year...I think she said it was a fig tree...or a cherry tree...hmm. Anyone?

The Salal I planted last year has survived! I thouht it was a gonner from my neglect but I have 2 growing under the snowberry tree now, quite happily.

Maidenhair fern.

Creeping Jenny.

The lovely native snowberry tree.

Euphorbia and Heather.

Just a fairyland picture here...with an emerging magic bean. At least, it's a precious bean that a friend carefully counted out for me from her stash.

Pastel semps, just when I thought you couldn't be more gorgeous.

This was apple green when I planted it...cool!

A fried guacamole hosta who suffered in a "shade garden" that turned out to be quite sunny in the summer time. Transplanted now & hopefully going to fare better.

A fern transplanted to a shadier spot. Apparently shade is rare in this garden.

A new box for composting! Definitely a beautiful thing.

This honey, my sweetie.

Kitten, I see you are as blissed out as I am.

A new mystery. This plant was spied through the hammock holes while I lounged last night...what could this be? I am guessing Chinese Lantern Plant...anyone?

The view from the hammock. This is where it dawns on me, I am the cosmos! What's in me is powering the bird that spirals, singing and quick.