Thursday, July 23, 2020

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Cucumbers



Cucumbers grown from seed

Tomatoes



Tomatoes grown from seed

Corn



Corn grown from seed

Basil



Basil grown from seed

Dirt



A custom mix of garden dirt, coir, peat moss, finished & screened compost, perlite, and #2 cherry stone chicken grit.

Works great.

Red Lily



Red Lily

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Friday, July 10, 2020

Medlar

https://www.rootsimple.com/2010/12/medlar-the-best-fruit-youve-never-heard-of/

Yet another item that has been on my wish list for decades.

Mulberry

https://oikostreecrops.com/products/tree-crop-plants/black-mulberry/

This has been on my wish list for decades.

Metallic Gold Dragonfly



This is just some random photo from the internet, but yesterday, I saw a metallic gold dragonfly in the garden.  It was so gold and so metallic that it looked fake.  I did not have my phone with me, but even if I did, it moved off so fast that I could not have photographed it.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might think it was a government surveillance device.

Wild Senna

https://www.jgplants.com/wild-senna-cassia-hebecarpa/

This would be a welcome addition to our garden.

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Bee Balm



Monarda AKA Bee Balm

New Jersey Tea



New Jersey Tea

Niobe



Clematis 'Niobe'

Joan Elliott



Clustered Bellflower 'Joan Elliott'

Orange Butterfly Weed



Orange Butterfly Weed

Zinnia



Zinnia, variety unknown.

Japanese Maple



One is looking much healthier than the other.

The dead one was a $400 value door prize from Monrovia at Boerner several years ago.

Very disappointing.  The combination of polar vortex and verticillium wilt is a killer.

Elderberry



The native Elderberry.

And it all descends from that original single stem that was given to us by The Village all those years ago on Arbor Day.  The gift that just keeps on giving.

Grandpa Ott



Morning Glory 'Grandpa Ott'

Tiny Monster



Geranium 'Tiny Monster'

Sundrops



Sundrops

Flowering raspberry



Flowering raspberry

Rubus odoratus

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Clematis 'Jackman'



Clematis 'Jackman'

Heavenly Blue



Morning Glory 'Heavenly Blue'