my gardens are nice and relaxing

[twoeleven]

it's been a good year for the clematis bushes:



(that's two clematis intertwined.)

and a good year for volunteer wildflowers in the lawn:


















it's also a good year for the irises:



and this little monster is a sweet william bud, apparently from a wildflower seed mix:

Comments

[juli]

Lovely! Particularly envious of your blueberries :)

[twoeleven]

thanks! :)

y'all's blueberries aren't doing well this year?

[corvi]

I too envy the blueberries, and was coming here to say so. Alas, our only current vacciniums are wild red huckleberries, which are not heavy bearers.

[juli]

Our land is just super hostile to them, so we don't have any. We are hoping for a good crop of salal, oregon grape, and haskap, tho, for our blue berry fix :)

[twoeleven]

there are some dwarf blueberries meant for container gardening, which might satisfy your blueberry fix. :)

[bluepapercup]

Look at all those future blueberry snacks!!

[twoeleven]

that's why i grow 'em! :)

nearly all store-bought blueberries are a tasteless, over-sweet variety called "jersey". mine are wild types, slightly improved wild types (somebody crossed a disease resistance trait into one of them), or fancy hybrids that are still tasty.