This year, I was determined to have a beautiful backyard!
My little garden that was planted in late April , was late in germinating as we had rainy weather not only in June but also most of July. All my vegetables did sprout but the yield was low.. August was a very hot month and things like my parsley ( grew into an immerse plants with tons of blooms).
My multicoloured swiss chard went quickly into seed as did my spinach!
The sunflowers which are usually a wonderful fall display of colour, grew to over 7 feet, flowered but to my amazement the squirrels lopped of the sunflower heads! Only 2 sunflower heads are left standing!
The scarlet runner were thick and tall and did produce many beans. I did dill pickle one 2 quart size jar using
this bean!
My first attempt on growing garlic! Not too sure what to expect!
These lovely royal blue Delphinium grow quickly in the spring and have a wonderful show of spikes of summer flowers in blue. However, the plant is prone to rust on the leaves and looks shabby into late summer.. cutting down the spikes results in more new growth and smaller flowery spikes! This whole area , I have dug out for other plants only to have the delphiniums come back in full force!
I was not successful growing poppies until eight years ago mainly because I used to weed out the plant, thinking it was part of the thistle family. The year my mom passed away, to my surprise, I had one of these poppies bloom.. I had been too busy with her to focus on gardening. Now these beautiful blooms in the middle of summer are a wonderful remembrance of my Mom
Yes, more pictures on my lemon tree in splendour..
A begonia that is still full of bloom in Oct!
