What's New

What's new ...

July 2010 - First plants placed in the Italian garden.

Mushrooms!

July 2010 - We're redoing our lower lawn. The other locations have been thatched, plugged and fertilized.

June 2010
The Walled Rose Garden finally shows some blooms.

May 2010 - We always look forward to the changing seasons. Spring is an exciting time. Though the weather can change dramatically from moment to moment, we go with the flow. Between general maintenance, we work on "secret projects" that can be accomplished in a day.

Moss garden addition to The Woods

Heavy rain fall floods the carport and long shed.

Flower boxes go up.

New Path at the White Garden

APRIL 2010

LIFE ON THE FARM

The chickens are laying eggs. The baby owl took his first flight from the nesting box.

Deer are eating our roses.

March 2010 - Prune roses in White Garden....Set tuteurs in Veggie Garden and plant seeds.

February 2010 - Early Winter Clean Up, Mulch and Mow

Prune boxwood and fruit trees

December 15, 2009 - We welcomed four new additions to our family.

The pullets were hatched from April to late May of 2009.

None of the four are closely related,

but were obtained from the same breeder.

They should start laying eggs early this spring

as the daylight starts to be around 14 hours per day.

As soon as we get to know our girls,

Rod will give them appropriate names.

They all have unusual colors:

brown red - black with red hackles

buff columbian - buff with black markings on the tail

silver blue - dark blue with some white lacing on the throat

ginger blue - blue with yellow hackles and shading throughout

Two of the four are part of Bryant Helvey's

ginger red/ginger blue breeding project.

He is the only known breeder in the US working on these colors.

December 2009:

Rake leaves, clean up beds and mulch

Shut down irrigation, blow out pipes, cover hose bibs

A sunny Fall evening and a frosty morning.

We're getting ready for our October 17th event...additional parking with irrigation

and the pumpkin patch featuring lots of varieties.

August 2009 - It's been a dry summer, so we're watering around the clock. Though most of the gardens have an irrigation system, some plants and our containers need a little more attention.

The veggie garden gets a sod path and irrigation system.

Bare root roses planted in February are in full bloom by July,

May 2009 -

The Tussie-Mussie Garden features perennials and annuals.

Because the area was so deep and lush,

we had a hard time picking flowers and maintaining the beds.

This spring, we placed bricks to form a simple,

yet decorative pattern to access the flowers.

Come winter when the plants are gone,

the pattern will still give the garden interest.

In the background, the aerial hedges are just starting to push their spring leaves.

April 21- It finally feels like spring! After the wet, windy and cold winter, we're junkin' the dead and damaged trees and shrubs. The weeds and weed seeds are in full force. Not too many slugs...yet. We're busy pruning, fertilizing, replanting and mulching.

March 18 - we transplanted an existing boxwood parterre. Hopefully it will survive and thrive. It's the first planting in our Italian Garden.

February 18, 2009

At the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, the American Horticultural Society Award went to "Rock Solid Conifers", designed by Rod Juntunen, who also created it along with Wells Nursery and Marenakos Rock Center.