In the Garden

My garden isn’t at its best in July. It’s a month when I tend to sit back and watch how plants “duke it out” with the dry weather. Partly for environmental reasons, partly from laziness,…

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Garden Joy!

Almost wishing I could just stay home and enjoy working in my garden now that the sun is shining here and the roses are just coming to their peak — Constance Spry and Rosa Complicata…

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Island Garden to Vancouver Walking to Seattle Shopping

It’s so hard to leave my garden at this time of year — especially now that this dazzling clematis — Jersey Cream — is coming into its glory. It’s been putting on a decent show…

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6th and Blue

No, my Romneya coulterii isn’t blooming yet. Rather, Hostess recently asked that I join her in a meme and post an image from my 6th blogpost. (She also asked that I pass the meme along…

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Natural Beauty . . .

To paraphrase. . . . Consider the species tulips in my garden, growing through the trimmed-down tufts of last year’s grass, soon to be overtaken by this year’s blades. . . They neither toil nor…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.