Summer tour of the Yard

You got the look at the spring foliage... now just for a short look at what summer might look like around our yard. Don't get your hopes up too much, these are still only cell phone camera shots, but they give you the idea. Also, remember that we're only pretending to garden around here, as true gardening requires a long-term plan, sunlight, and a variety of intentional plants. We're working more with the perennials that were already here when we moved to MA, and a few potted (or raised bed) garden vegetables. Gives us a few years, and we might do a better job to impress.

First for the fauna (which happens to be one of my very favorite specimens):

Here we have the solo day lily that presented itself at the back of the backyard (right next to the bleeding hearts and the lilacs which are just seedlings for now). You might recognize some of the Yellow Archangel from before. How do you like that evening sun back-lighting the petals?


Here's a bigger cluster of Common Day Lilies which line the driveway. I also like that ground cover which fills in the low spot down the hill from the drive. No clue what it is.

Then we get some hosta fortunei, of course, which seems to be a staple around here. Sorry our buds aren't all flowered out. You see them as I come, I guess. :)

Then here's our huge spread of ferns which started as oh-so-lovely fiddleheads. I just can't get over how beautiful and unspoiled this view just south of our backyard remains. (I guess I've cleaned up garbage from a previous tenant, but that could be a different story altogether.)

Then there are the fungi that creep into the yard. Do they count as flora? Probably not, but they grow pretty well in the damp shade along with the other weeds.



Here we have some--- well, I don't know what they are, but we have them also filling in down off the driveway.

Now for some of my babies. Have a look at these, and imagine something red and juicy these flowers will morph into:


And then consider the peas that we have climbing a cage over next to the more sunny rock wall. We count each pod one by one as we pick them. I think we're up to 45 off the 5 plants in the pot. The portable pea pot. Perhaps we'll get a second harvest before all of the plants yellow and decide the summer isn't for them.

I had a look this afternoon, and the green beans are just starting to flower also, but I didn't get any pictures. Their climbing a bean tent Ian and I put together.

Give me a couple of months, and perhaps we'll get lucky and get the look around from a "Boston in the Fall" vantage point. Later!