Late June Garden

The strawberries have been few and far between, but still delicious:

 Arugula flowers (they bolted way too quickly, but I thought the flowers were sort of pretty):

Tomatillo flowers:

 A strange weed has been cropping up everywhere this year -- I don't know where the seeds came in from, but the flowers are kind of pretty so I've left a few of the plants:

Baby green tomatoes:

And this mystery plant, which has fragrant leaves -- some kind of herb? But how did it get here?

My harvest for yesterday's salad: several kinds of lettuce, akashiso, basil and chives!

Rainy Garden

The first flowers are starting to come out in my garden, so I went out this morning to take some pictures, even though everything is covered in the rain we've been having on and off these days. Most of these are unexpected; the forget-me-not came out of nowhere, and the pinks seem to have seeded themselves, since the original plant is far away. After two successive gardens on the same porch, there are a lot of surprises in the pots!

August Porch Garden

Earlier this month, the garden featured bee balm in various stages;

a second (and third!) crop of strawberries;

an entirely unstoppable mini rosebush;

several colors of sweet peas;

the first morning glories; 

and the first ripening vegetables:

Those cucumbers were surprisingly large, and really tasty! I can't wait for the peppers to ripen.

I went out yesterday to take some photos before Hurricane Irene arrived this morning. My Thai eggplant "tree" (it's the biggest thing on my porch!) finally started putting out buds;

the coleus plants have AMAZING color (entirely different from the colors of the plants I took the original cuttings from, for some reason);

the bell peppers are getting pretty enormous;

the first Heavenly Blue morning glories have finally come out, and the cosmos is starting to flower for the first time too;

 some beautiful colors on the tomatoes;

and the lantana, which has just kept blooming steadily through the season.

I brought many of the plants inside, but the garden is so enormous by now that I just can't fit all the plants in the house. I hope that the ones currently out in the hurricane survive!

July-August Garden