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.

Ladybugs Love Cosmos

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Hellebores from Winter to Spring

 

Blooming Bulbs!

Tête à Tête daffodils, Jeanne d'Arc crocuses, and Early Harvest Kaufmanniana tulips

Tête à Tête daffodils surrounded by emerging Forget-me-not foliage

Purple crocuses, daffodils, and Forget-me-nots

Tête à Tête daffodils, primroses, and foliage of bluebells and euphorbia

White and purple crocuses, Tête à Tête daffodils, white hellebore flowers, and red Skimmia berries

Crocuses and daffodils

Crocuses, daffodils, and columbine

Crocuses and columbine

Purple crocuses and foliage from emerging tulips

Crocuses and tulips in the front strawberry bed

Red Showwinner Kaufmanniana tulips and purple crocuses in front of early foliage from Pink Impression tulips

Happy New Year!

A frosty evergreen huckleberry

First blooms on an overwintering primrose

A cluster of frosty 'Autumn Joy' sedum

Azalea with a touch of frost

Winter spinach on New Year's Day

Surprise harvest on New Year's Day: the radishes were hiding in the cabbage bed, found a few stray carrots in another bed, and the green onions are still holding their own...

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!

Autumn Flowers

Autumn crocuses

Perennial sunflowers

Rudbeckia and nasturtiums

Rudbeckia, nasturtiums, and cosmos

7 Peaches and 35 Plums!

The harvest continues!

First Cucumber!

The first cucumber of the season!  It was slow to warm up this summer, but we now have a few cucumber plants that are finally producing.  Let's hope for a sunny September!

Root Crops!

Early Wonder Tall Top and Touchstone Gold beets, red potatoes, and rainbow carrots!

I thinned the beets and carrots today in order to give the remaining crops a bit more space.  Some were good size and some still young.  I also dug some of the red potatoes so we could enjoy a few for dinner this week.   So delicious!

It's great to have such a sturdy basket for bringing it all to the kitchen.

Pretty New Deck Chairs!

We found these lovely hand-built deck chairs and table from Laughing Creek Productions at the Edmonds Summer Market this week.  Now I have a nice place to put this pretty pot of sweet peas!

Early Summer Flowers

Shasta Daisies

California Poppies

Yellow Lilies with Euphorbia

Feverfew

Snapdragons and Poppies

Sweet William

Poppies and Bellflowers

Rozanne Hardy Geraniums

Sweet Peas

Lupines with Daylilies

Love in a Mist with Blueberries and Grapes

Acidanthera, aka Peacock Orchids

Calendula with Crocosmia Lucifer

Bolting Kale Flowers