The sweet blossoms of Rouge Vif D'Etampes squash. What girl can garden without THE Cinderella pumpkin?
A lone Johnny Jump-Up (Viola cornuta) that managed to survive one of my urban homesteader idiotic moments.
Pokeweed (Phytolacca spp.) flowers. When the inky berries form, I'll use them for dye.
Ohhhhhh! *rubs her hands greedily* The (directly seeded, late planted) Brandywine tomatoes (Lycopersicon lycopersicum) are finally setting blossoms. I can't wait to taste those first tomatoes, warmed by the sun...
My poor butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii), which was planted last year and transplanted this year. I have a terrible track record when it comes to transplanting bushes, so I'm uber glad this one managed to stick around.
My Achilles heel, the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), finally abloom. Sweet, sweet success.
2 comments:
I love Rouge Vif D'Etampes. I've got some planted in my pumpkin patch.(Cinderella was always my favorite fairy tale heroine) I've tried to grow CA poppies with little success. it seems like the rain always washes the seeds away. When did you start yours? Congratulations on 6 years marriage.
Sarah, thanks for the comment!
I planted the California poppies the first week of June, once I realized that the breadseed poppies I had originally planted in that space weren't coming up. Not a single one. *sigh* They're planted on a sloped plot, which is why I think the breadseed poppies didn't come up. I think they got washed away. When I planted the California poppies, I built the bed up by double digging, but instead of leveling out the bed and sloping the edges, I raked it so that there was a slight depression in the middle of the bed where I wanted the plants to grow. As it rained, the bed was leveled anyway because of the slope, and some of the seeds DID wash down to the edges, but many of them stayed put.
Hope that helps...
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