July Gardens

Lots of delicious food, flowers, and beneficial insects this time of year.

The first of the Frost peaches and Hollywood plums

Odessa summer squash and Sungold tomatoes

Onions, beets, carrots, cucumbers, and beans

The weight of the pears cause the branches to arch beautifully.

Anise hyssop with yarrow and calendula

Flowering cilantro and pac choi seed pods

Apple Blossom yarrow

Feverfew

Red Milkweed for Monarch butterflies

Purple Sensation allium going to seed

Stargazer Lilies

Stargazer lilies along the front walkway

Stargazer and Casa Blanca Lilies

Volunteer potatoes with radishes

Ladybug larvae found crawling on leaves of the Italian plum tree

Basil, tarragon, broccoli, and Sungold tomatoes

Rozanne hardy geraniums climbing the Becky Shasta daisies

Snow peas and tomatoes

The first of the soft and hardneck garlic harvest

Red cabbage in all its glory

 

Sliced red cabbage just after harvest

Cabbage into coleslaw

Pear Harvest!

Three young pear trees with a delightful variety of fruits: Rescue, Orcas, Conference, Red Bartlett

Pears!

Looks like a good crop of pears this year;
pictured here are the first fruits on our Rescue pear tree

Alibi & Negrita Tulips in the Perennial Gardens

Pink Alibi and Purple Negrita Triumph tulips with lovage and evergreen huckleberry

Soft pinks and purples compliment the blossoms of the evergreen huckleberry

Alibi tulips with forget me nots

A skirt of Alibi tulips for this flowering pear tree

Negrita, Pink Impression, and Alibi tulips in a sea of forget me nots

Autumn Fruits

Today's Harvest: Italian plums and a really large Rescue pear