Gardeny
Things growing in my yard (or someone else’s).
Norfolk Botanical Garden
We wandered around for the 175-acre garden for couple hours, but I could easily spend a whole week here if they would let me camp out!
Unfortunately my camera battery died early on, so I don’t have any pictures of the azaleas or witch hazel in bloom, the American woodland garden, the canal, etc. etc. etc. Once I return to Canada and get my phone out of airport mode, I do have a few pictures of the Japanese garden to add. Here are 6 pics for now:
Summer garden photos I forgot to post
Willow Farm Grasses revisited
I dragged Eric out to a nursery that specializes in ornamental grasses last weekend. You can also wander around their property, several acres of meadow. Last year I bought sweetgrass and prairie dropseed. I bought three more this time, which I’ll photograph after I plant:
- Switchgrass – Panicum virgatum “Warrior”
- Little bluestem – Schizachyrium scoparium “The Blues”
- Tufted hairgrass – Deschampsia cespitosa
Chippy
Front yard garden in June and July
Two newest used books
Couldn’t pass these up, found at the Farmer’s Market yesterday:
Very green spring backyard
Giant purple pompoms
Veggies!
Sunday was warm enough to move my seedlings from porch to pots. They spent their first night outdoors in the rain and look happier than ever today.
Planted a week or so ago and now sprouting:
- lots of sweet basil
- mesclun lettuce mix
- spinach.
Newly planted in the big pots:
- peas
- carrots
- beets
- radishes.
Newly planted in the smaller planters:
- 2 dill
- 3 parsley and 1 lemon basil with last year’s chives
- 5 hot nosegay peppers
- 6 eggplant
- 7 scotia tomatoes
- 10 sweet banana peppers.
