Another Blogger Meet Up

After all of those garden photos I dumped on you, my faithful readers, I took a little break this week.  But we did visit more NPA Open Gardens last Saturday, this time in Bellevue.

Our first stop was at the Bellevue Botanical Garden, a return visit to see what was in bloom now.  I have a bunch of photos from the border there that I might get around to posting some other time.

Our first NPA stop was the garden of Linda Rasp.  

We were enjoying the lush plantings street side, and then when we descended the driveway we heard a voice saying "Well, look who's here!"

It was Peter of The Outlaw Gardener blog and Alison of Bonnie Lassie!  We met Peter and Alison when they toured our garden two years ago when we had our NPA Open Garden.  We got to talking and discovered we were all bloggers, so we exchanged information, and we have been blogger buddies ever since. We have run into them several times since, either in a garden or at a garden show. Alison and Peter are both officially "garden bloggers" and that's usually what they post about.  As you know, I am a bit more of a "whole life" sort.  

The gardener here, Linda Rasp, likes to propagate and experiment.  Here you see her fruits and vegetables all in containers. That wall of tomatoes should like the heat those pots will soak up. 

Tom talked shop with the gardener. 

I took more photos of the pretty flowers.

The Reeder Garden

With all of this garden posting I've been doing lately, I decided it was time for an update on my own.  So this is how I started my Sunday morning on this last day of May.

Camera in hand, let's take a walk.  We'll start on the patio, where we have been spending several hours each afternoon during this warm weather. 

 Our collection of fancy succulents keeps growing. Since they don't need much water, their pots don't need to be hooked up to the drip system like the other pots here do.  The little blue bird was a gift from Isaac for Mother's Day. The peacock in the tree pot above was from Irene. 

The rose garden and the "snake bank" ( yes, we saw a snake there once a long time ago and the name stuck) are looking lush right now.  The native fox gloves sort of plant themselves. 

Across the back of the upper yard, under the tall fir trees, light leafed plants light up the shade. 

 I noticed a squirrel picking apples from the espaliered trees yesterday. We might get a few for ourselves. 

 Down in the lower yard somehow the plantings that seemed so sparse a month ago have exploded. 

 The vegetable and cut flower garden is finally taking off. 

 This is the bed where we removed the rose tree. We weren't sure we would have enough plants to fill it.  Ha!

 Now let's go down the path to the garden deck. 

The rhododendrons are just finishing up down here. 

 Around in the front of the house, Tom's fancy leaf geraniums that he raised from cuttings are filling out their pots. 

 On the west wall of the garage the tomatoes raised from seed are taking off. 

 And in front of the greenhouse, the first Asiatic lily burst its bud. 

Yes, June is busting out all over.