Dogwood "Flower"

Dogwood is a con artist. Those "petals" are just leaves pretending.

Potatoes emerge

These potatoes survived the whole winter in the garden. This year, instead of buying a bunch of seed potatoes, I decided to take all the any "too small to eat" potatoes from last years harvest, and just replant them in the fall and see what happened. So far...only a few have emerged.

Nasturtiums back from the dead

These nasturtiums either survived the winter or replanted themselves for a whole new summer of fun. last summer we learned that a few nasturtiums go a long way. These make cool flowers and are good for aphid control.

Lost in the Garlic Forest

Planted a whole bed of garlic. Squirrels don't eat it and it see seems like something that would be easy to grow. Also, my good friends, Sam and Wanda Notzon grow a bunch every year and that kind of inspired me. I spent a few months living in their basement during a time when they were drying or curing the garlic in their basement. The scent of that cool, humid, garlicky basement will always be with me.

Fantastic Mr. Phlox

IMG_0004, a photo by okfuskee on Flickr.

Ha ha - I bet that is the biggest trope in the phlox world. Anyway, this is my second favorite Phlox because it is a darker and brighter than the others. Sadly, we have much more of my third favorite. My number one favorite was also a favorite of the bunnies, so we have none left. This was taken with the new camera which seems pretty good so far. Canon Elph 12x optical zoom.

Flowering Phlox

First Tulip!