Whatever kind of soil sunchokes/Jerusalem artichokes/Helianthus tuberosus require, we have it. I don’t know where they came from because I didn’t plant them, but the sunchoke patch continues to spread every year and, if left unchecked, will soon be visible from space.
Woohoo! *insert GIF of cat putting on sunglasses* Summer is receding at last and the blog is finally back after being wiped out by some butthead who attacked the server this site is hosted on, along with several others, ruining the work of thousands of innocent bloggers and businesses for nothing. I will never, ever understand the point of punishing people who haven’t done anything to you, which means, I suppose, that I pass the psychopath test. Yay!
I started to catch up on some long-neglected weeding in the veg garden this morning and then made this:
It was too breezy to get a photo of it outdoors so the kitchen will have to do. Brown-eyed Susies, phlox, maple leaves, potentilla and yarrow. Not pictured: 4000 cubic metres of mint. If you need mint, I can probably help with that.
Maple leaves, brown-eyed susies, shasta daisies, veronica, yarrow, mint, vetch and wild asters.
Daddy robin watches unhappily while Foster snaps photos of the nestlings under the deck.
Two robins have been hanging around the backyard all spring, abducting earthworms from the vegetable gardens and giving us the what-for any time we venture close to the opening under the deck. Here’s why.
There are two families of ducks that regularly march through our yard, looping around the gardens, and you’d think it would be easy to grab a photo of a procession like this, but they move fast. I snapped this from the dining room window as they zoomed by in the rain, so please forgive the blurriness.
I make a lot of bouquets around here and rarely think to photograph them, but today I did. Roses, lady’s mantle, lamb’s ears, rose campion, brown-eyed Susans, and maple leaves.
