Serendib Garden

“Limelight” hydrangea. (If this shrub is too large for your garden, there’s a smaller version, “Little Lime.”)

Okay, I may have been a wee bit overambitious, trying to collect flowers for pressing AND tomatoes in the same shirt…

Monarch with purple duranta (tropical) and golden solidago (native).

Starting to get some of the bigger tomatoes…

“Jeana” garden phlox, in a little vase that Anand made at pottery camp this summer. He and Kavi enjoyed doing it again — Anand mostly made cylinders, because he wanted to work on his cylinder skills, and so I have a lot of little vases from him now. I love them.

I had this rose before, in the front yard, and it wasn’t happy and went away after a year. I’m trying again, and hoping it’ll be happier in the backyard, because I love the purple-ish color. “Ebb Tide.”

Rose “Princess Alexandra of Kent,” and “Jeana” garden phlox.

So, we’ve had a raccoon family visiting our garage every spring for some years, and we were mostly just living with it — we’d see them in the rafters on occasion, then mama and the babies would disappear again. But now they’re just wandering happily around our back garden, and they’re pretty big, and we