Friday, November 4, 2011

Knitted November

How elegant nature is in transition.
My inner granny exclaims: Glory Be!
Really, roses in November?
Day-glo leaves on black earth.
Nandina and lavender are so pretty together. They're both frosty in their own way.
Garden goddesses nestled in for winter.
The Firetail seems to thrive and bloom even more aggressively.
The Lavenders are pruned and hopefully healed up before frost. I left the flowers about like discarded bouquets.
The Autumn fern has turned almost white. It is copper in spring, turning orange and yellow in summer.
The Leeks stand alone in the vegetable garden now...with a multitude of marigolds that won't quit!
These three have such personalities...they would definitely get in trouble in school.
The crush of fall is upon us, yet even the rubbish pile is startling with beauty.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Garden Lunch

Sweet onions, beans and tomatoes
Rinse
Toss with leftover rice
Eat

Harvest Time

A very scary and impressive looking yellow carrot! Thank you Ed Hume Seeds!
The vegetable garden is wild place this year! I never tied up the tomatoes, and as any vine would, they have rambled all over everything. I don't mind too much, but it is a sight.
The Marigolds show where the two vegetable garden beds are, the middle area is supposed to be pathway between!
San Marzano Tomatoes
An heirloom tomato...I wonder if it is supposed to be orange or red...
Lettuce with frog inhabitants.
Parsnips
Beans
Lettuce, Onions, Carrots
Purple Vienna Kohl Rabi
Sweet Peas & Snow Peas in a tangle.
The zuchinni never did take off this season, and is dwarfed even more by the hard as nails sunflowers.

One last flush of flowers

Magenta Bee Balm.
Hyssop
Glads 'Wine and Roses'
The meadow grasses
The front yard, fading for fall a bit. The sunflowers were so huge and bright, they insulted the rest.
Perennial Sunflower
Sunflowers and Anise Hyssop
Yarrow
Gaillardia
Hydrangea had a poor performance this year. I don't mind because last year was SO incredible.
Autumn Crocus
Asters were new to my garden this year, they are impressive.
And finally, a sign that Winter's coming: rich black seed heads emerging from silver iris blades.