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The garden plot on Monday. The big excitement there with the tomatoes and the basil, the volunteer zucchini, and the marigolds, is that the Zinnia has a bud! I grew them from seed, and they have...

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It is getting to that time of year where I need to start getting a little more creative with the photos I am taking, looking for the unexpected in the mundane. Our heat finally broke but we stil...

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I just like this random picture of a private garden I took on a walk a few weeks ago. It has so much character. Lately I have been a little behind on noting as there have been things to do and d...

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Here in the depths of this drought laden summer it is such a pleasure to find a bright unambiguous jewel tone. I didn’t realize until this year that gladiolas are a wildflower in South Africa. T...

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A new dahlia in the garden this morning. I could spend the rest of my life trying to get the angle just right on these shots, but at least you can see the full flower and the color is good. The...

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Messy dahlias at the garden a few days back. I can tell the heat and the turn towards fall is changing the garden. One of my plot neighbors, (the one that has been there the longest and is a bri...

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A heat damaged magnolia flower from Sunday morning. We have had what in a more typical year would be high temperatures lately, but everything now is in our minds compared to the heat dome experi...

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From our walk last weekend. We both remembered this house and I may have posted a similar picture three or four years ago, but this is fresh and shows the elevation and how some places are sited...

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Himalayan Honeysuckle. Yes. We know it is a noxious weed in Australia. But it is rare here. We found this yesterday in a certified wildlife garden next to a conservancy up in the hills a bit sou...

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I took this on the way back from the plot midday today. A neighbor garden a block away. The city came and brought a crane and lifted the fallen branch off the shed at the community garden and ch...

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The garden, early this morning. The plot with the artichoke is the one next to mine. If you look carefully, you will see a giant oak limb on the roof of the shed and an unhappy structurally unso...

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Ah, I found out the reason this is called Queen Anne’s Lace. Apparently, she liked to make lace and if you look very carefully just off center of the umbel, you can see a dot, that is a dark red...

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Mrs. Sherlock wanted me to see this unusual blooming agave across town on Saturday. At first, we weren’t going to walk as her social calendar is filling up with potlucks, but she had been amazed...

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So many of the flowers I have been looking up lately are in the sunflower family. Our garden doesn’t get enough full sun with the two giant oaks for sunflowers yet but the huge community garden ...

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I don’t know what these are. We think they might be a kind of allium. I noticed some in the other neighborhood community garden a few days ago. They are kind of magical. Over the last few month...

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The lilac garden this morning, a bit sun drenched even though it was still early. The Park Department gardener told us about a year ago as she was putting in bedding plants that she took making ...

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Say hello to our newest Heritage Tree. #377. Since the worst of the heat started, I have begun to walk what I call “the long way round” to the garden. It takes me a little over 20 minutes each w...

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An hour before class yesterday. It was completely insane. Because it came so early in the season, we had no real time to acclimate but then how do you acclimate to record breaking heat? I went o...

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If I were a house, I would look like this right about now. Wild sweet peas in the front yard and vines starting to creep onto the porch. I am pretty much fine unless I look in the mirror or at m...

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This is my favorite picture from the last few days. The clematis is in Mrs. Sherlock’s Garden. (Spellcheck insists on capitalizing garden, which makes me laugh as if her garden was an amusement ...

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This is one side of Mrs. Sherlock’s garden fence, with the area newly cleared as they begin the process of separating their property from the one next door that they partially owned until recent...

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You can see we got the netting up yesterday. As soon as we anchored it with the bricks, the bugs were on the outside trying to get to the chard. The Spinosad worked on the leaf miners though. Ne...

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Alright, it is already passionflower on the flower clock. This is the vine that covers the northwest fence of the community garden. It has heavy competition from some raspberry vines though. Th...

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The big park by the river yesterday. It is actually raining a tiny bit today, unlike yesterday where it only threatened in a visibly dramatic fashion. I am getting started on promoting the PT C...

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The big, ruffled poppies are blooming across the street at the track. It has been windy so getting a decent shot is not so easy. This is the time where we move from spring to summer and the wild...

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