what’s blooming

October 2105 Bloom Day
Still bees in the arugula:



Arugula has taken over the yard. Note the primrose desperately trying to escape across the rock wall:

weekend update

“The late, great horticulturist, J.C. Raulston once said, ‘You’re not stretching yourself as a gardener if you’re not killing plants.’ See what good gardeners we are?”
— Ketzel Levine, Plant Talk, NPR, 2003

Saturday I put new geraniums and columbines in the front bed, to replace the ones that croaked this year. Ripped out the gray sagewort to make room.

From Geraniaceae Nursery:
- 2 @ Geranium procurrens × Geranium psilostemon ‘Ann Folkard’
- 2 @ Geranium richardsonii

From Digging Dog Nursery:
- 1 @ Geranium ‘Dilys’
- 2 @ Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Leprechaun Gold’
- 2 @ Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Ruby Port’

After ripping out the sage:



After amending the soil with mushroom compost and YumYum Mix and planting:



After re-mulching with leaf litter:

roasted tomatoes

Picked enough tomatoes to fill a half-sheet pan for roasting. Here they are before going into the oven. Yum!

what’s blooming

July 2015 Bloom Day
Sunflower:



Hollyhocks, hollyhocks, hollyhocks:







Fennel:



Mojave sage (Salvia pachyphylla):



Penstemon:



Cholla: