First, our back yard.
The first picture above is our flower garden in late June, with the botanist's flowers. The second is our vegetable garden. We are growing peas, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, and three huge sunflowers (picture further below). Technically, the vegetables are growing themselves. Because we have been ignoring them. But they are definitely growing.
In other yard news:
The house next door has added a new fence. And patio and sprinklers and landscaping and driveway. Actually, the house next door has pretty much been gutted inside and out and rebuilt. It looks really nice. But while they were gutting the yard next door and digging a trench for the fence, we had two (ugly) bushes removed, a lean-to torn down, a wood shed destroyed, and five old, mostly dead trees cut to pieces and turned into mulch. Our botanist planted far more trees than could actually grow to maturity in the space they were given. It was nice to have them cleaned out. Now we would like to plant a couple of (smaller) trees in the place where the mostly dead ones were removed. Do you think planting fruit trees would be too much work? Sweet cherries, Bramley apples, and nectarines sound really good.One more yard photo:
Here are our sunflowers, as of last week. Hooray for summer.
4 comments:
very, very pretty
I want to move into a Botanist's house! Also, I believe that you need two cherries trees, for purposes of cross pollination, or something. That's what I always was told, at least (we had two cherry trees in our backyard). But I highly suggest Bing Cherries. They are the best food known to man, and were probably the forbidden fruit.
Very cool photos of both growing people in New York City and growing things in your backyard. I love summer photos of the garden, when everything is bulging out of itself--flora and fauna and heat and me and family--summer's great, isn't it? (Even when you're trapped inside Columbia for a week.)
Nice posts.
I wish I could come visit, you know, and just bring the nurser.
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