Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Tulips in May

garden tulips in May
garden tulips in May,
originally uploaded by Viva.
At the time of this post the Tulips are long gone, but the hostas and ferns are incredible!

Irises in June

garden Irisis in June
garden Irisis in June,
originally uploaded by Viva.
After saying so much about how the garden is doing I thought it appropriate to post a picture of hte bearded irises that bloomed so beautifully this June. They were only around for about 2 days.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Beans, Peas and Columbine

It is nearly summer, but I guess still technically Spring. The garden has come up in full force. First to show their wares - the purple and orange tulips followed by the purple geraniums. The tulips lost their lustre about a week ago and the geraniums are just losing their flowers. THe hostas are up and are showing sign of flowering. The blue mountains and teh columbine have come up together. The multi-colour bloomed a beautiful white columbine yesterday.

The large bearded irises bloomed last week and this week they are followed so many tiny irises...I can't wait to see them!

Coming next will be the yellow flowers I can't remember the name of, the hostas, oriental poppy and wild bergamot.

Late July I will likely see the cone flower, black-eyed Susans - that should bring the butterflies and birds....

The plot has begun to sprout beans and peas and of course the eggplant, zucchinni, cucumbers and tomatoes are doing very well. We have to weed in a big way and get the chicken wire aroung our sprouting peas to keep the deer away.

I love watching all this stuff grow - will post some pics soon.

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Planting the Plot

This year I signed up for a plot at the gloucester Community Garden. The timing is off with by "bend over belly" be significanlty impaired by the coming of our daughter in July. Soon after that breasfeeding and general lack of sleep will likely take over. What does all this mean ofr teh plot? Well, that's where Alan comes in.

Alan grumbled extensively about having to plant the 7x7 metre plot. But after I drafted the garden plan and we got all of our seeds -I think his enthusiasm increased. Alan is a great implementer of ideas and plans. On our way out to the garden our neighbor Catherine volunteered to help she had never gardened and I guess figured it would be fun to try something new. So off we went with our green thumbs and gardening tools.

Although we battled bugs and the heat - our weee garden was planted and watered. I will have to post some pics as the plants begin to sprout. We planted:

Roma tomatoes, eggplant, Zuchinni, Pumpkin, peas, beans (yellow and green), and cucumbers.

We'll see how it all goes!