Even after the hard 20 degree nights and some wet snow.
October 22, 2008
October 7, 2008
Waterlily Crocus, Supper, Aster Visitors
is also in bloom now, even after the killing frost last night.
For supper we had venison shanks cooked all day in blackberry juice with onions, salt and some herbs. Potato chunks added later. Wonderful.
There are lots of visitors to the asters these sunny days gettin gtheir last licks in before the flowers all fade;all sorts of flies, wasps, bees. Here are a few.
October 5, 2008
October 4, 2008
September 14, 2008
In Bloom Now
This is one variety of three different Autumn croci that are in bloom now.
August 30, 2008
August 6, 2008
August flower garden
The sedum is in bud in the right forground. Hollyhocks, tiger lilies, phlox, deep purple red and dark blue-violet clematis, oriental pink lily at far back left. In July it was all green. The oriental lily has 27 blossoms on that one stem. They are powerfully scented. They like all the rain.
