and the gardens are growing and changing...daily, weekly, seasonally...
There's always something happening at the farm and gardens....
New Additions for 2008:
Wisteria wire, grapes and lavendar, new planting beds and blueberry patch:
June 29th - An arrangement at the entry to welcome visitors to
"Gardens of Note" - a benefit for the Skagit Symphony.
Mama and her twins...
May 4, 2008 - Here's a baby owl born on the farm. We constructed owl boxes at the barn and shed and every spring, we watch the babies take flight.
April 2008/May 2008
We've started our Walled Rose Garden construction.
50 yards of concrete poured. Panels are going up.
April 19, 2008...It's beginning to snow!
March 23, 2008...Narcissus, ranunculus, helleborus, pulmonaria..
February 7, 2008 - plant yews and construct a connecting path between the bunny house and the Kitchen Garden.
Plant shade treees and continue frame work for the concrete edging at the Sea of Gravellee.
November 2007
Demo old concrete pours and the floor and footings of the silage bunker.
32 truck loads and counting!
Decorate the entry for
PICK A PUMPKIN
a benefit for
Children's Hospital
September 15, 2007 - view of
Corona Garden and Playfield (background)
Shade Shed Garden (mid-ground) and
Shannon Garden (foreground)
August 15, 2007 - power wash and prep for painting
View from the power lift...
One of four flower arrangements
on the terrace for a garden party:
crocosmia leaves, lilies, phlox, solomon seal
August 3rd, 2007
Buck and Chuck visit the farm.
July 21, 2007
Lucky rainbow
Mushrooms pop up
after the rain...
July 18, 2007
New fountain installed at the Butterfly Garden.
June 15, 2007
Pick flowers and filler for arrangements:
delphinium, eremurus, alstroemeria, allium, phlomis, roses, columbine, solomon seal, lady's mantle, peony, herbs
June 2nd, 2007
Prune laurel and boxwood.