Garden Journal

Local gardeners! Please join our new group to share photos of your beautiful plants, ask for help identifying plants, exchange perennials, trade info and advice, and hear about our regular lectures, workshops, and other events, such as the upcoming Garden Walk. (And although this is officially part of the OP – RF club, if you’re […]

I went to my first Garden Club board meeting, and am somehow not only taking on updating the website (which was the bit I had agreed to in advance), but also creating and maintaining a Facebook group for it, helping another evening on the Garden Walk, joining (and possibly chairing??) the Civic Beautification committee, and

Evidence that the veggie garden is finally in, if messy. We built the raised beds last fall (kits from Gardener’s Supply Co.), and then yesterday, improvised beds on the other side with leftover bricks from the construction work seven years ago. Someday I’ll get rid of those bricks, but not yet! I watered last night,

I can’t quite figure out what to do with these. My original thought was to do a chapbook of cancer poems, and I still want to do that (thanks again to those who donated in support). Some of the poems are garden-ish, so I’ve been working on garden-themed illustrations for those four. I was thinking

It’s really remarkably pleasant, spending fifteen minutes photographing flowers on an early summer morning. Maybe this is my version of meditation. 🙂  First rose of the season, Zephirine Drouhin, our thornless porch climber.

This remains my favorite of the tall bearded irises, I think. Queen of May, with Miss Kim dwarf lilacs behind.

That first one is Pallida Dalmatica, a great old iris used in perfumery. (https://www.oldhousegardens.com/MoreAboutPallidaDalmatica)

Kavi and I did a second batch of bookmarks this morning. We agree that both white and black backgrounds are nice, in their own ways. And also that it’s frustrating when fragile bits of flower break off!

I am now the proud owner of a laminator. It is ridiculously fun to use. Laminate ALL THE THINGS! (Whoops, didn’t think to sign these before sealing them. Oh well…)