have an amazing garden

just to share one more.

Tulips have filled in nicely. Only wish they lasted longer.

for next year. Planted another dozen daylilies a couple of days ago. Also planted another fifty tulips a couple of days ago. Thinned the daylilies from along the garage and transplanted about twenty of them to the shade garden. Its really been nice to have some help with the work, both R and A have been excellent helpers with the garden.

It was still 93 degrees at 4 pm, the time I usually take Cali out for a walk. But she seemed a bit listless so instead, we went out into the backyard so she could play in her pool. As she cooled down, I spent time working in the garden and cleaned out areas that were dry and sorry. Here are a few things harvested this evening: sunflowers, yellow squash, sage, thyme, mint, rosemary and some roma and cherry tomatoes.

Maturity has set in to the giant sunflowers as their heads begin to drop and seeds form in their bright faces. Long tendril-shoots of some kind of squash or melon continue to meander through the groundcover, peppers are beginning to flower, tomatoes have given me a few sweet gifts. The cilantro has burned up although the parsley is hanging in, the sage is sturdy and the thyme is fragrant. It’s kind of a wonder to be in the middle of this summer-time.

There are still a few things on the to-do list. The gophers just got the last of the pumpkins and the deer have found the vegetable garden. Whatever it’s way too late in the summer to do much more planting-wise.

And it does really look amazing. Not like a finished garden – still two quite bare spaces, but I think considering how we started this year, I’m really happy with how it’s come.

It is really beautiful.

is starting to bloom along the fence.

has brought a fullness of unexpected growth… pumpkin shoots, tomatoes, sunflowers reaching to the sky (I think of DoubleN each time I see them), even my sweet peas survived that little burst of too-hot weather a while back.

It’s really filling in nicely. And, for comparison, this link is the same area 2 months ago – the picture marked Last One.

Oh, my back and arms are tired.

I’m slowly getting the flower beds lined with the rocks but it takes a long time while also watching the chum. At least I figured out how to use the red wagon to move a pile of rocks rather than using the wheelbarrow.

Entry path completely done in picture. I’ve started the bits of the herb garden that need it and the junction outside the kitchen window. I’m at the phase in the project where I really really want to keep pushing on it, but life and the comments of my body say to take a break.

We also moved the bathtub today after the chum and I used up all the soil in it for the new herb pots.

It’s all looking really good. I’m very happy.