In the heat and smoke of August, the garden continues thrive. The vegetable garden is productive and the flower beds are colorful. A few late summer varieties have emerged, a few are at their height, and many of the spring and early summer varieties are starting to form seedheads. Daily weeding, deadheading, and some limited watering are part of every day’s routine.
Featured here are some selected photos from daily walks in the gardens, shared here in a Google Photos slideshow:
We are out in the garden every day, maintaining the flower beds, borders, vegetable beds, shrubs, fruit trees, containers (weeding, harvesting, deadheading, cutting back, watering, fertilizing, recycling, and cleaning up). When it is hot, we look for shaded areas … Continue reading →
Every month brings new flowers, maturing vegetables, and herbs, and shrub growth. We go out every day to weed, deadhead, harvest, transplant, rebuild, clean up, and survey what needs to be done. But we also go out just … Continue reading →
