That's the way the song ends, and fittingly, this is the end of the posts of the photos I took on Saturday.
I mentioned places to sit in our garden, where we could pause to enjoy what we have created. Now we'll swing down around the side of the house to the garden deck for a sit, and then up and around the front of the house.
Tom found these plastic hanging plant tubes at a nursery a couple of years ago, with the idea of hanging them on the deck posts. He planted up one last summer to try it out. Now he has all three planted, hanging, and with dripper tubes to each one.
So far they are looking quite nice.
Evergreen Pacific Coast iris.
The views from the deck, down below, and back up the path.
The rest of Tom's bonsai collection is here.
The native ferns and oxalis bubble up along the path by the house.
Up we go to the front of the house.
Tom's fancy leaf geraniums (pelargoniums) are in place.
Plants blend under the full moon maple tree.
Big shrubs were recently removed here and stuff from the yard sort of stuck in under the family room window. The echiverias are grown from offsets produced the year before and grown on in the greenhouse over the winter.
The golden hop vine is once again covering the gate.
The tomatoes, in a heat trap on the east side of the house, are growing fast.
This lovely long spur columbine seeded itself in the gravel
And back we are to where we started.
Cool nights and sunny afternoons continue. We might get a speck of rain in the next few days, but not much. After going into the city on the train for yet another appointment this morning, I am looking forward to spending some time in the yard this afternoon.
I do hope your June is busting out all over, too, in the most delightful way. I pray the awful storms are leaving you alone.
If you sit on the patio, which I do frequently, you see the upper yard, with it's walls and rose bed and borders, and of course, the special patio plants as well.
Self-sown violas are too pretty to pluck out, so when Tom wanted to clean out the seams between the pavers, which are there to provide water and air to the cedar tree roots, I said "Wait".
The bed where the tulips provided a riot of color in April is now planted with annuals, most of which Tom grew from seed.
We'll begin by the shed, where the Edelweiss has just come into bloom in the gravel.
Where there used to be a green hedge, there is now a wooden fence, as the new construction houses next door enter the completion stages.
It's time for columbine and fox glove, both of which plant themselves where they want to.
The chickadee residents have fledged and flown from the bird house.
Tom's bonsai, which he created over many years.
There will soon be an abundance of roses.
The oriental poppy popped. We used to have more. I think I need to encourage them.
We have a few iris, but lack of full sun makes them lanky and tippy.
The view from the story chair, another place for a sit down to survey the realm.
The back border, under the tall fit trees, is mostly shades of green.
The wall separating the upper lawn from the lower has an untamed look.
Espaliered fruit trees form a visual barrier on the back property line in the lower yard.
The water supply is near the raised beds. They aren't very photogenic yet so that will come in a later post.
We visited a garden this Sunday morning, so there will most likely be photos, but not until I finish my own garden tour.
In the meantime, I intend to follow the motto on the sign above, and since it has now reached 73 degrees on this Sunday afternoon, I think I need to go sit outside.
We've been ticking off the lists around here and things are looking spiffy.
We got the trimming of the plants on the driveway wall done.
I ran the hedge trimmer and Tom got up on top the wall and did the weeding. We can only hope that new neighbors will keep their weeds knocked down now.
Tom scrubbed the deck and the deck furniture. It looks great.
This morning I got the old freezer out in the garage defrosted and cleaned out, a once a year, end of the school year job.
We have weeded and mowed and edged and trimmed, and once in a while we take time to sit and survey our kingdom. This morning, after finishing my exercises and the freezer, and before the sun broke through, I took my camera out to the garden to see how it all looks through the camera eye. I took so many photos that I will have to break this up into several posts.
Let's start with how it looks to sit here, in the middle the that island bed in the top picture.
Surrounded by abundance.
Walking around that same bed, and the surroundings in the lower yard.
We are having glorious weather, perfectly suited to us Pacific North-westerners: cool nights and mornings, warm, sunny afternoons, temps reaching the mid 70's, warm evenings.
May is so beautiful, but Ah! June!
