The Beauty of Winter Foliage

Douglas fir branches, evergreen huckleberry, and pieris japonica create a lovely nest for winter fruits, pine cones, and poppy seed pods.

Evergreen huckleberry and salal branches with pine cones, lemons, and limes.

Creative Ideas for Frosty Days

Pie Garden

The Alpine strawberry and blueberry pie garden has some visiting mushrooms this year. They seem to like surrounding the old pine tree stump and some of the highbush blueberries.

Liberty Apples!

The first of a good crop this year

December in the Garden

A few more berries on the evergreen huckleberry bushes

Snap pea shoots and blossoms still growing

The beautiful changing colors of a Sunshine Blueberry bush

Marner Lagerrot Red Cabbage

A bed of self-seeded chervil

The sage is still lovely.

A long bed of autumn spinach and freshly-planted yellow, orange, and white Fosteriana tulip bulbs. The pavers are for decoration and to keep the squirrels from digging up the bulbs. I'll move them before the tulips shoot up in spring.

Cylindra beets

Heather and Sunshine Blueberries

The strawberries are showing new growth, already getting ready for spring.

The last of the hollyhocks

Autumn Cauliflower

This is the third head of cauliflower from our fall crop.  It's delicious, and there are still several more to be harvested!

Cherry Tomatoes in November

The last of the cherry tomatoes!

Beautiful Evergreen Blueberry Bushes

The Sunshine Blueberry bushes are showing lots of new growth this month. 

The raindrops on the branches are quite pretty.

The evergreen blueberries are enjoying the autumn rains.

This large Sunshine Blueberry is at the forefront of the center garden bed.

Huckleberries & Raspberries

We've got lots of tiny evergreen huckleberries, and the leaves are just starting to turn pretty colors.

So many delicious golden raspberries throughout the summer and fall.

Fall Flowers

Cosmos

Nasturtiums

Crocosmia 'Lucifer'

Sedum 'Autumn Joy'

Heather

Borage

Calendula

Monch Asters

Lady in Black Asters

Sweet William

Strawberry tree blossoms

Fall Foliage

Japanese maple leaves on the back yard maple tree

Japanese maple tree in the front yard

The deciduous blueberry bush leaves are turning bright autumn colors.

October Onions

A flowering leek in the onion patch

Clusters of perennial walking onions

A bed of green onions

Beautiful Brassicas

Romanesco Broccoli

Cauliflower

Marner Lagerrot Red Cabbage

Alcosa Savoy Cabbage

Umpqua Broccoli

Dinosaur Kale