blooming in the garden

The garden this morning and later in the rainy afternoon:

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 […]

the whole thing:

A photographic stroll through everything this past weekend.

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.

the colors of the day

Today, in the garden:

the ebb and flow of the garden

Two steps forward, one back. Develop two new beds, lose another to invasive Johnson grass… So it goes down in the garden lot. Except that, this year, even with all the dead noxious overgrowth from last fall, the garden is full of life, and color. I can see the work done as much as the […]

the newest bed

The high heat of summer has arrived, so everything moves slower in the garden. My breaks match or exceed my working sessions so I can cool down and rehydrate. The goal is always to stop buying new plants before ninety plus degrees, but the clearance racks have been very good to me this year, and […]

the garden, after the rain

We never got the rain expected yesterday, but this morning brought a long, slow drizzle followed by a brief heavy shower. The garden ended up lush and in full bloom as a result. the ‘nosferatu’ daylilies are at their peak