These photos are from a couple of weeks ago, and the plants have already drastically changed since. I want to post these before they have gone to seed, wilted and died. Maybe I’m being a little dramatic, but summer is basically here and the plants are growing leaps and bounds.
What is most striking now is the contrast between the flowers and the shades of grey skies we’ve been having. The plants don’t care if it’s cool and rainy. And I don’t care either. Everyone else is inside, but 62 degrees with a sprinkling of rain and a cool breeze doesn’t keep Wolfie and I inside. We go right along with our plans of digging dirt, poking at bugs and playing with the plants. There’s so much to look at!
top: Grand Dame rose bud
above: Apache sunset agastache
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- south facing view of NE 16th Ave between Wygant St. and Going St.
- native columbine
- massive purple alliums
- these yellow flowered Fraggle-like mint family plants (PLEASE help me with the name)—-> FOUND the name, it’s Jerusalem sage, Phlomis spp.
- my wooden planter with succulents, violas, and lotus vine
- succulent with offspring; hen and chicks?
- Lamb’s ears
- red-purple heuchera
- emerging echinacea
- delicate rose
