Above is actually a slightly bigger garden – Hampton Court, outside of London!
Had quite a summer, a real one actually, with 70’s and 80’s and sun since Memorial Day. Several periods of rain saved me some time watering. The garden looked the best in late June through much of July, while the foliage was still lush.
Im trying to establish some young plants in newly cleared areas, as usual. New plants include seedlings of Balsamroot (sunflower yellow flowers) and Iris Setosa (dark purple) that I sowed last winter 2012, as well as some young ferns and other plants we bought at the native plant sale.
I have a bunch of seedling /bulb lets to plant out this fall including the smaller more delicate Common Camas, hookers onion, brodiaea, shooting stars, leopard and tiger lillies and other camasses. Those will be planted out around the yard with pumice to mark the spots. I need more of them in the front yard, but these have a harder time in general there, between the slugs and the moles, so I am usually reluctant to commit too many of these that I’ve spent time on.
Few Douglas squirrel sightings, and also of lizards. Three raccoon sightings in four days, all during the day! Here’s hoping for another one of those raccoon blights.
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