Garden Dreams and Dirty Nails: Bright and Beautiful

Even though many parts of the garden are in loss and rejuvenation stage, the garden still looks beautiful! I love to see all the different bees, and butterflies perusing their choice of nectar. Every year I try to add more and varied pollinator friendly plants, and more shrubs and trees for the birds.

Unfortunately, we removed two of our large junipers along the fence, and may remove the third one too. Even with consistent watering they just were not thriving, and may have been suffering from a disease. Although, I couldn't see evidence of that, we didn't want it spreading to any of the other evergreens or the apple tree. Fortunately, the apples and tree looks great, just wish the squirrels and sparrows stopped their pilfering and pecking.

The bean plants are healthy, just not producing much. I need to stick with provider or blue lake beans, they always seem to produce in abundance. The basil all looks great this year, and the cherry tomatoes in bags are doing so so. I replanted the pea and onion beds with beans so if we have a warm Autumn we should see more beans.

For new plantings I put in another Ninebark where a juniper was removed, I put in a dark leaved honeysuckle in my dead zone area behind the small pond- good luck plant! I still need to put in a tiny clematis I purchased. My goal is to get a small tree/large shrub for near the patio, maybe a smoke bush or hydrangea, and probably a tall hydrangea for the west fence where the juniper was removed. Also a small evergreen to put in near the old cherry. The old cherry will probably be coming down this year or next. Time for photos!