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| Hollyhocks |
I missed a couple of weeks, was out of town and things got a little hectic when I returned. My garden continued to bloom without me, and surprisingly, the weeds haven't overgrown everything (yet?).
All of my lavender is blooming, in my rose garden and on the sunnier side of my shade garden - along with peas, yum!
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| Lavender and peas |
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| Fern leaf lavender |
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| White lavender |
Hollyhocks are growing just behind the peas (on the sunnier side of the shade garden), and in the back of my vegetable garden.
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| Hollyhocks in the vegetable garden |
In my vegetable garden, I'm letting a few onions go to seed. I doubt that's going to result in large onions, but I wanted to see what they would look like.
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| Onion blooms |
Also in my vegetable garden (which perhaps needs to be renamed), more lupine and delphiniums are blooming.
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| Lupine |
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| Delphinium |
Here's one actual vegetable in flower - bush beans!
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| Bush beans |
On the sunny hillside, salvia 'hot lips' blooms have turned from mostly red to mostly white. Harebell (campanula rotundifolia) and yarrow are also blooming.
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| Hot lips salvia |
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| Hot lips salvia |
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| Harebell |
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| Yarrow |
When I was digging up that part of the hillside earlier in the spring, I scattered wildflower and various poppy seeds in a strip across the bottom. Even a month ago, I was afraid not much was going to come up. Now, everything has taken off!
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| Wildflowers |
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| Wildflowers, many colors of California poppies |
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| Wildflowers, bachelor's button? |
In my tiny native meadow area at the bottom of the hill, brodiaea coronaria, which was an accidental purchase, has lovely blooms.
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| Brodiaea coronaria |
Of course the roses continue to bloom and I just deadheaded a lot of them so will have many more soon.
The new groundcover plants in the rose garden are growing slowly but steadily.
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| Heron's Bill |
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| Yarrow |
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| Creeping Bellflower - just planted this month |
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| Catmint |
That's more pictures than I thought I had! What will bloom next? Lots of shasta daisies!
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| Daisies |
