Once again it is the 15th of the month, and time to share what is going on in our gardens on a long lived meme begun by Carol over at May Dreams Gardens: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. It is an interesting meme, and I enjoy visiting the other gardens, although I admit I don’t always have time to visit all of them as this has become a very popular meme indeed.
I have now been participating in this meme since 2007. It doesn’t seem possible that it has been that long, actually. The original idea was we were supposed to be making lists of what is blooming, what has just finished, and what is coming up, but I admit that the “list” part of this meme fell by the wayside on The Havens blog very early on. To publish an exhastive list was, frankly, exhausting. And for this Gemini, it was impossible to keep my attention focused long enough to make such lists.
I’m afraid this month is no different, and frankly, the lists just keep getting longer as the gardens keep expanding. So today, I am going to use the secondary theme of “Riots of Color”, which is what is going on in my gardens right now. Everywhere I look, there are riots of color, out in front, along the east line where the orange trumpet vine is blooming, by the sauna, on the root cellar, in the stroll garden. I invite you to accompany me on a short stroll through the property on this showery day. Better put on some long sleeves and maybe even some bug spray, because not only are the flowers rioting but there are squadrons of mosquitoes patrolling, and they are out for blood.
Yesterday the lance leaf coreopsis in the Petite Prairie was rioting in the sun.
The vegetable garden is looking splendid. So far we have two gallons of asparagus and four gallons of peas put by for next winter. The onions and garlic are almost ready for harvest. The cucumbers and melons are up and growing. The tomatoes are blooming, the broccoli is making heads, the carrots and beets are developing. It’s all good.
For the first time since I planted it over a decade ago, the wisteria is happy enough to put on a second flush of blossoms.
The mulberry trees are bearing ripe fruit right now, so there is a riotous bird party going on over there.
I shall leave you with a few of the more fashionable ladies who are displaying their beauty rather wantonly. A day lily in the front:
The tuberous begonia in the hanging basket in the pergola:
And my personal favorite, a poppy bespangled with the morning’s rain:
Y’all come back now, hear?
I know this is about the blooms, but HOLY CRAP, I’m jealous of your veggie garden!
Reading that post made me hungry, even though I just had breakfast. I love berries, and asparagus, and… For all that, some of the flowers look good enough to eat. Prarie Petite is a stunner, I’m sure it attracts the bees, who then pollinate your vegetables. Great post. Who’d need a list?
Happy bloom day!
Riot is right.
So much of everything and me too envious of your vegetable expertise. So tidy and productive.
BTW, is the fleece to protect carrots against their flies?
Somebody told me that if you plant carrots 18 inches off the ground (on a table perhaps, not very easy, ) the carrot fly will not find them as they skim at groundlevel only.
Hmm.
I haven’t had a lot of problems with carrot flies. The long piece of fleece is over the broccoli and protects it from the cabbage looper butterflies. I also have it over the eggplant (the small bit in the background) which keeps it safe from the flea beetles. I use it when I am planting corn and beans and melons to keep the birds from eating the seedlings when they first come up. It’s quite useful stuff, and lasts several years if treated gently.
I’m with you on the poppies… they’re my favorites, too!
And I know that I should be looking at the riots of flowers, but I have to admit that I keep going back to that awesome path in the middle of your vegetable gardens. Nice work!
Thanks everybody for visiting! I’ve about wound myself up to putting up a history of the vegetable garden. It has developed quite well in the 15 years we have lived here, and the evolution is fairly interesting. Of course, it began pre-digital, so I will have to find and scan film. . .
Wow, I love lily season! Your blooms are beautiful. The vegetable garden looks great too!
I am in complete & utter awe, HMH! I have an 8’x4′ plot at the new community garden and I’m worried about keeping THAT going (if it ever gets going…we have had the crappiest weather ever in June)! Yours is the most amazing labour of love…
Love your vegetable garden! So neat and orderly. My onions and garlic are still a ways away from harvest – even though everything else has been early this year and I remember harvesting garlic in June last year.
I love your riot of color – my favorite gardening style:) We have returned to veggie gardening after many years. We built a raised bed and some things are doing well, others not so well. I would love to read how you developed your veggie garden – its so organized and productive.
I am loving the beautiful vegetable garden in addition to your flowers. There is nothing quite like harvesting ones own and bringing it to the kitchen to prepare. The summer finds us barely going to the grocery… and that we call wonderful!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend.
I too envy your vegetable garden! And that mulberry…we pick the ones at the park, but we always seem to just miss them one way or another.