Showing posts with label Apples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apples. Show all posts

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Tulips with Apple Trees

Groenland tulips with blossoming espalier apple tree

The tulip colors are a delightful complement to the apple blossoms.

Tulips in the apple orchard

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Liberty Apples!


The first of a good crop this year

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Groenland Tulips with Apple Blossoms

Such beautiful soft colors together, delightfully blooming at the same time.  It's a happy gardening accident!

 

 


Sunday, April 28, 2013

Groenland Tulips

Groenland tulips on the deck overlooking the kitchen garden tulips

Groenland tulips with apple tree blossoms, a perfect pairing
Espalier tree apple blossoms

Monday, October 8, 2012

Liberty Apples!


This is today's harvest of Liberty apples from our best dwarf apple tree.  It's a reliable and consistent producer.  There are still about twenty more apples left on the tree.  

Monday, April 30, 2012

Spring Flowers in the Front Gardens


A lovely view of so many flowers and colors in the front yard gardens
Tulips in the center beds

Forget-me-nots and Darwin hybrid tulips in bloom, with foxglove and columbine soon to follow

Tulips and azaleas with apple trees in center bed
Tulips after a big rainfall

Apeldoorn Elite tulips
Japanese maple tree with a few Apeldoorn tulips along the walkway
So much spring color!
Tulips in center bed with euphorbia and emerging bluebells
Pink Impression tulips under maple tree shadows

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Flowers and Fruit Blossoms


It's a beautiful time of year right now, with many different flowers starting to bloom all around the gardens.  The fruit trees and some of the berries are beginning to blossom as well. 

Apple blossoms

Lilac

Bluebells

Solomon's Seal

Hellebore, aka Lenten Rose

Tulips and forget-me-nots in front of the pie garden

Pie garden - alpine strawberries, apple trees, and blueberry bushes

Apple tree blossoms in the pie garden

Alpine strawberries

Raspberry bushes

The first of the red rhododendrons

Saturday, September 12, 2009

This Week in the Garden


The pumpkin patch


A Berkeley blueberry bush turning lovely autumn colors


A Sunshine Blue blueberry bush that's still producing berries


An espalier apple tree with 3 tiers of apples: Gala, Jonagold, & Spartan


Jonagold apples, just starting to ripen

Spartan apples


A Queen Cox apple tree in the front yard, with lots of apples this year


Scarlet runner beans, growing like crazy


A pretty patch of pink cosmos


Late-blooming miniature sunflowers