Carrots -- tasty roots and beautiful flowers.
Poppies -- Corn poppies do well here, others not so
well.
Veggie Garden -- January through NovemberAcross the Years
Carrots -- tasty roots and beautiful flowers.
Poppies -- Corn poppies do well here, others not so
well.
Veggie Garden -- January through November
Pansy Patch -- Pansies in mid March
Apple, Red Boskoop -- May,
2006, first time this young tree has set fruit
Apple, Red Boskoop -- August,
2006. These apples had circumferences from 12 to 14 inches.
Chamomile Harvest -- May, 2006
Phlox, Brilliant Blue -- Only blooms for a
short period, but very impressive when in bloom
Phlox, close up
Two Heads -- Broccoli and KLW
Elephant Ears -- Black Magic, Colocasia
Elephant Garlic
Garden Spiders
Moon Flower with Sphinx Moth -- flower is 4 to 5 inches across, blooms in the evening
Okra, Tall --Ten feet, four inches tall.
Pepper Art -- my son arranged these peppers to
look like a hurricane
Peter Peppers -- they look like a penis
Basil, Purple -- Delightfully fragrant
Beets and Onions -- Rarely do I get a good beet crop, but this year I did
Cosmos -- Volunteers that sprung up beside a
sidewalk
Dill Blossom -- November, 2004
Gaillardia, Yellow -- Gaillarida, in various colors, volunteer all over my yard.
Gomphrena -- All of these are volunteers
Gomphrena, Close-Up
Irises
Marigold & Bumblebee
Maple and Dogwood -- November, 2004
Okra -- Even if you dislike the fruit, the flower is beautiful
Peppers -- Banana and jalapeno peppers
Peppers the Next Day -- Grilled with Chicken Sausage
Plums -- On our Stanley plum tree
Plum Tree -- Produce tasty prune plums
Spinach and Onions -- Spinach rarely does this well here
Quince -- With daffodils and Nanking Cherry, Spring, 1994
Rudbeckia in Bloom -- Black-Eyed Susans, along the bank of the catfish pond, they spread like weeds all over the yard
Summer, 2000 -- I am sitting near the front of my main garden
Orchid -- if you have ever wondered why orchids are named after testicles, check this out.
Vanilla -- and vanilla, a member of the orchid family, is named after the vagina (a sheath).
USDA Hardiness Zones --
Map and zone finder -- enter your zip code, your zone is displayed. I am
in zone 7B. Other resources here too, even gardening e-cards.
Priapus -- Greek/Roman God of the Garden
Picture of Priapus -- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii
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