This will be the last of the #inmygarden posts for the year. The lilacs still look like they have mange… …and the Geranium magnificum and the euphorbia have gone all leggy and droopy, probably in part because of the one-after-the-other fall storms that have started to blow in off the Gulf of Alaska… …but the…
I was hoping Mr. Walter Faxon would bloom while the firewitch were still going strong! The middle shot is a close up for your viewing pleasure. And of course the daylily, which started out as one plant, a gift from Rita Jo, and then got so big it had to be divided and now has…
The Tiny Bee asiatic lilies make it into full bloom after five (six?) years of trying. The daylily (one of six that came from dividing the first one) is about to kaboom. The globe thistles are farther along than they’ve ever been before at this time of year, including the two I had given up…
From left: The weirdest flower #inmygarden every year, the allium, one of seven (Seven! Six of which come from one division two years ago of the first one I planted) geranium magnificums blooming fit to bust, and the lady’s mantle (swipe in to see how it collects the dew on its leaves). The rugosa rose…
#inmygarden 2025 It has been the coldest, wettest, windiest spring in my memory. It didn’t hit 60F in my yard until this week, when we finally got a stretch of decent weather. But just to remind us that Mother Nature always has the last laugh we also got some haze from the Canadian wildfires. It…
The first #inmygarden post of 2025. Photos taken March 29th, when these overachievers have no business poking their heads above ground. Rhubarb. Old man’s bones. Primrose. At least they aren’t blooming. Yet. Himalayan poppy. It’s still below freezing at nights, guys, give it a rest!
Continuing the yellow trend. That euphorbia this time last year was twice as big. Many of my flowers are at least a month late. Seven of my gorgeous firewitch dianthus are in what I sincerely hope is hibernation, not actually dead. Half of the grass in my yard is dead and I’ve bought a pair…
Why is everything that blooms first in my garden yellow? Except, of course, for the much-beloved forget-me-not.
This was the first big bloom in my garden last year — a drift of pale yellow primrose. This is what it looks like this year. Yeah. This is what a long, cold spring looks like. #shiver
Not forgetting the wildlife.
