A garden is never complete. Is the most complex, invigorating, unpredictable, violent, and beautiful hobby. Our Longmont garden is but four years old, and every year is full of possibility and anguish.
Garden Progress 2022
I decided to take a photo every Saturday from (roughly) the same spot in the garden to track the growth of the front bed throughout the season from late March (when everything seems a gonner) to autumn (when we are overrun with abundance).
Plants, like humans, require only the right combination of location and encouragement and nutrients to thrive. While many folks could see this as an out-of-control garden, to me it is abundant and life-affirming and luxurious in its unruly splendor.
And, thank goodness we don't belong to an HOA.
June 2023 garden in bloom
Building a raspberry trellis
Audrey II in action
My first 2022 Black Brandywine
June 2022 garden in full bloom
New Tomatenhaus
Old tomato setup
Cold frames installed!
calendula blossoms for skincare
My first bouquet of flowers 2019
Current seedling nursery
Black hellebore
bumper strawberry harvest
Gothic lily bed with a *pop* of color
end of season pickled peppers
I made raised garden beds in 2018 for our annual pickled peppers.
clary sage - a garden volunteer
