weekend review

There is plenty in bloom in the garden. Here’s a late photo review from this past weekend:

everybloom everywhere all at once

This weekend in the garden. All at once. Up in the side yard: Lilyfest: The rustic bed: And the rest:

lilyfest – rained out

The festival is rained out today, so let’s get up close and personal with the stars of the show! Asiatic lilies are among the shortest lilies, with rich saturated colors, no-to-slight fragrance, and rapid offspring production. Pura Desiertos: Pura Desiertos is the tallest of our short lilies, a saturated pink with a watercolor feel, no […]

week 2 of lilyfest ’25

Second weekend of our festival has the new opening act in peak performance, and several returning acts warming up for their turn in the lineup.

yesterday in the garden

A photographic stroll through yesterday’s blooms:

the slow opening of Lilyfest 2025

The headliners are warming up and the new opening act is lined up for a stellar debut. The Opening Act: Pura Desiertos opens Lilyfest 2025 with an amazing double bloom. Warming up on deck: Tiny Ghost prepares its set for 2025. A smaller, tighter group this year than previously, but bringing the game and ready […]

today’s work in the garden

I began my Saturday with the third weekly run to yard waste drop-off. (Our county has free Saturday drop-off for residents.) Most of last fall’s debris is removed and the space is opening up. I also cleared unwanted volunteer trees from the garden lot, planted rescued calla lilies in my mom’s memorial space, planted ajuga […]

rain, growth, and the productive weekend

Our short cycle program’s peak has past, so I was back to a two-day weekend last week. After some brief socializing Friday night, I chained myself to the garden for the remainder of the weekend. Our county has free yard waste dropout every Saturday, so that’s where I started, bagging and hauling away seven yard […]

this evening, in the garden

We have arrived at the heat of the season, having spent most of the past week breaking ninety degrees. And the garden loves it! So much is thriving in the garden right now. This is a great year for expansion, and I am riding the current state of it like a giant wave of motivation […]

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