a garden tour in pictures

 

I’m keeping this week’s garden post short and sweet. I’m still recovering from last week’s sewing frenzy.

So a (partial) garden tour in pictures. I have the hardest time making myself take ‘big picture’ photos. I love capturing ‘scenes’ or the amazing details of individual plants. One day I’ll just stand back and try and take pictures of the whole garden at once. It’s rather large and sprawling and extends into our front yard area. Oh, and I titled each photo for those of you who want to know what the plants are:

 

(fig tree)

 (raspberries)

(flowering kale for seed collection)

(broccoli)

 (a volunteer reseeded green from our spicy chinese stirfry mix, not mustard, what is it?)

(schisandra vine)

(day lilly buds from a foraged day lily transplanted into our garden)

(salsify, a volunteer ‘weed’ and edible root vegetable we actively reseed)

 (lemon verbena)

 (Audrey eating comfrey blossoms under the pear tree with raised beds and patio behind her)

(same only here you can see wine barrels full of mint behind her as well)

 (the boys planting seedlings next to the currant bushes and herbs, horseradish in front pot, tangerine and fig and raspberries, with strawberries planted underneath, behind them)

 (succulents with California poppies)

 (succulents with California poppies)

 (aloe vera)

 (iris)

 (iris)

 (pea tendrils)

 (canoe pea blossoms)

 (lavender buds)

(pear tree with herbs and flowers, butterfly bush behind and grapevines along the fence)

 (Audrey gardening between the pear tree and the double-dug swales and lower berry and vegetable beds)

 (Gray between the apple and pear tree in the kids area, soon to hold a rabbit hutch! Audrey’s herb garden that she’s planning and a bigger sandbox)

 (Aaron planting amongst the black currant bushes)

 (Aaron with yarrow and lavender and currants behind him)

{linking up with Mental Chew for How Does Your Garden Grow?}