tasty harvest

had a plentiful harvest. lots of tomatoes, that my motha gave me a wonderful chutney recipe that makes the whole house smell DIVINE for days. sooooo yummy. thx MOM!! dried some herbs, just before frost, that was a tad lucky:)

sweet peas

fall beauty

the virgina creeper turns a brilliant red in the fall......i thought mine was intense, until i went to mom's garden at the farm and it was impossibly redder!!!

the radiance of a fragile flower

darling daisy's
chocolate mint and algerian ivy snuck in behind
white columbine
creeping thyme

iris
pansy
double impatiens
flowering chives
more pansy

the flowers are blooming in my garden. the wind today is testing their strength!?!?

tulips, honeysuckle vine and algerian ivy new to my gardens this year

my tulips came up wonderful (thx for the tip from a client to put them a little deeper in the fall so they come up a little later in the spring and don't FREEZE!!!)
tried and true wind hearty pansies....fantastic for decorating the tops of cakes or "things"
bug repellent....

a walk through our garden

purple/white iris
pansy/lobelia/monkey flower combo
beacopa, lobelia, potato vine and giant pansies

my new garden structure, authentic barn wood from canallan farm & ranch, thx dad!!!

mandavilla (sp) vine growing up the foreground
toddler being silly
potato vine, marigold, blue lobelia and indigo petunias
blue lobelia, magenta petunias and white geraniums (not flowering in this photo...really pretty now, though:)
shasta daisys
haden and i spend endless hours weeding, watering and eating the produce from our gardens. my plants have developed an immunity to a size 9 T footprint embedded on their leaves from time to time. all in all haden has seemed to have inherited g'mas g's green thumb!!! :)
jh