Honey Bees and Poppies!

The honey bees are buzzing all around the Princess Victoria Louise Oriental poppies today!

 

Flowers in the Perennial Gardens

Beauty of Livermere poppy with rhododendrons, forget-me-nots, and columbine

Red poppies with perennials

Lupines!

Foxglove , maple tree, and espalier apple tree

Rhododendrons with perennials in the pond garden

Dakota Shelling Peas & Red Torpedo Onions

Dakota shelling peas in pots on the patio

Dakota shelling peas and Red Torpedo onions in the kitchen garden

Spring Salad

Lettuces, Red Russian kale, spinach, chives, and green onions

Pears!

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

Poppy Season Begins...

The first of the Allegro Oriental poppies

Allegro poppies in the sunshine

Purple Columbine and orange Allegro poppies

Tulip Season Finale!

The last of the kitchen garden tulips in full bloom: Red Shine and Marilyn lily flowering tulips!

The beautiful, late blooming Marilyn and Red Shine tulips

Back Yard Kitchen Gardens in May

Dinosaur kale, Ruby Streaks mustard, lettuces, radishes, chives, herbs, mints, lavender, breadseed poppies, bachelor buttons, forget-me-nots, strawberries, Patriot blueberry, perennial sunflowers, and tiger lilies

 All of the above, plus:

Spinach, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, Red Russian kale, Swiss chard, Red Torpedo onions, arugula, artichokes, snap peas, shelling peas, snow peas, rhubarb, more lettuce, zucchini, cucumbers, lily flowering tulips, Valor plum, Glacier cherry, Egyptian walking onions, more kale, and sweet peas

Tulips and Bluebells

Alibi tulips and bluebells

Red Shine and Marilyn tulips with bluebells

White Lilacs

Alibi Tulips with Bluebells and Forget-Me-Nots

 

 

Red Shine and Marilyn Lily Flowering Tulips

 

Kitchen Garden Lily Flowering Tulips

Ballerina tulips with spinach and chives

 

 

White Triumphator tulips with flowering arugula

Moneymaker and Seattle tulips with chives and mints

 

Early Morning Spring Harvest

Princess Irene tulips, lettuce, spinach, arugula, and radishes

Lily Flowering Marilyn Tulips

The first of the Marilyn tulips, emerging in front of a sea of forget-me-nots.

A view from the other direction, with a bountiful cluster of rhubarb leaves.

Sunny Tulips on a Sunny Path

Darwin hybrid tulips and forget-me-nots in the sunshine!

Groenland Tulips with Apple Blossoms

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