In summer, gardeners leave napping to cats.

Bottlebrush Grass

Entry to pond area

Passion Flower Vine

Suckers all over the place-

only for a huge yard or large planters. 

Ours are in large planters.

Healthy pond covered with vegetation

keeping water cool and algae at a minimum.

Back Yard Patio Retreat

Back Yard Deck surrounded

 by

 Spicebushes growing in planters,

resulting in numerous Spicebush Swallowtail Butterflies

flying around the gardens during summertime.

Baby Runner Bean

Hindsight - plant corn two weeks before runner beans

Runner beans looking pitiful - 

Light mulch of wood chips and shredded leaves -

A treatment of liquid organic fertilizer for growth

 of microbes in the soil -

Much better now.

Baby Carrots

Lettuce

Lemon Cucumber

Purslane

an edible succulent from India

that grows only in the compost bins

and cracks in the patio in our yard.

If uprooted, it uses the water in the stems to make seeds.

Explains why so many are growing in my compost bins.

Now they are in the raised beds, and I plan to thin them out

and use for living mulch.  

Native Tall Bellflower

As the gardens mature,

 places for the non-native daylilies

 becomes harder and harder to find.

Some go to neighbors, others to the trash bin.

I keep holding onto as many as I can,

relocating them each year.

Poor babies! 

Michael's and Bryon's Resting Place

in the gardens

Newbie to the gardens -

 impulse buy cause no natives were available

that would fit the bill.

I love single flower roses!

Blueberries that the mockingbirds think

 I planted for them alone.

It's a war to taste any ripe ones before

they vanish down a birds throat.

Green Eyes Wink - super cute name

Entry to Front Gardens

Speedwell

Nameless Purple Spider Daylily - a gift

Orange Vols

Non-native bellflower

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