camellia blooms!

Vancouveria definitely done for the year

Spring bulbs are coming up, oops!

Not sure what the two weak ones on the left are. Too tall, scraggly, completely underneath the hardy geranium. Crocus on the right, I think.

fungus!

Eww.. all around the hellebores. Lots of it.

So many delicious huckleberries!

Japanese maple fall color

Saffron crocus

Pushing right up through fallen leaves!

green bean

Planted from seed midsummer, still giving beans

west side

Vine Maple

New one!

Late October Walkthrough

Ground is disturbed, like something dug for the bulbs, but saffron crocus have put up shoots - next to a tomato plant that is still going (though tomatoes only get vaguely orange).
Still have lots of huckleberries newly ripe to pick!
More green beans are ready, and the sunshine blue blueberries are still ripening.

Spring bulbs are also popping up near the house patio - either crocus or muscari.

Scraggly rhodie looking much better after feeding. Glad!

New transplants are all looking ok with fall rains taking over while we were out of town.

Lost an evergreen huckleberry between the scraggly rhodie and fir tree. Didn't get enough water over summer.

Serviceberry shrubs have dropped leaves that only turned mildly yellow. Nothing dramatic there this year, even with the one in the sun.

Serviceberry trees are yellow and pretty against fence.

Transplanted brunnera (that I moved with a ton of dirt!) looks totally happy now. Best transplant I've done yet. Too bad it hurt me for a week or so!

Mukdenia are not as happy. Looking flooded and maybe dead. Hope they come back next year.

Peas from summer seed are still producing.

Camellia buds are promising.

Annual daisies are still hanging on!

Big maple has pretty red leaves!

Emperor I maple  is slowly turning burgundy.

Red flowering currants that I moved look bad, but I see many, many green shoots. Might survive!

It's just beautiful here.

Saffron Crocus bulbs are popping up. Will they bloom this fall already?

Fall color!

wtf is that?

mukdenia rossi

Three from Molbak's; fell in love with the color.

still harvesting!

oxalis spreading

I count four points where it is aboveground and separated from the original plant. Three on the two other plants. ...still pretty!

beans! And snowdrops

Surprise more beans! They live clambering the huckleberry and red flowering currant along the west fence, and the tomatoes beside the house facing west. Love.
Still getting tomatoes there, too!

Planted  snowdrops, more near the back rhodie, near the patio corner by the house, and with the daylilies by the red flowering currant.

saffron crocus

Ten more saffron crocus near the path, where the brunnera was. This is prime sun-filled territory, so the brunnera, which can live in shade, had to go. It was very happy there, but a sunny little bed by the path should have edibles in it.

That's a tomato plant that went absolutely crazy on the right. To the left, vancouveria, which also loves shade, and will probably also be moved.

brunnera dirt heavy!

The hole left from where I dug out the big gorgeous brunnera. Tossed a glove in there for size. It was really heavy -- well over 50 pounds. Sixty-something, probably. Very. Heavy. Dirt.

brunnera after move

Please live, please live!

Also, I've notice tiny itchiness before after messing with these guys, but nothing like this. If getting up close and personal with brunnera, like, say, wrapping your arms around them and moving them, wear long sleeves. My forearms and belly, where my shirt came up, are itching like CRAZY. Covered in red bumps.

beautiful brunnera

Before move

This brunnera has been here for two summers (planted in May 2011), and it's easily tripled in size. I love it. But this spot is sunny and great for veggies, so the brunnera needs to go somewhere shadier. I really hope I don't kill it!

saffron crocus

Seven more bulbs between spent dianthus

eight saffron crocus

Between the green Japanese Maple and the white star lithodora

squash, hah!

Not gonna happen. Just a little late!

Three new golden maidenhair ferns

And Autumn fern

bed

Evergreen huckleberry from Gray Barn. Three bunchberry from McAuliffe's. To the left, we'll put in another vine maple; to the right, a small shed. Soon. Ish.

bed!

Transplanted two red flowering currants yesterday. They don't look so good.

Vancouveria along left side of bed and in front of RFC, from Molbak's.

Two evergreen huckleberries, from Gray Barn.

Deer fern in back, under window, small, from McAuliffe's.

Sword fern on right, from Gray Barn.

Two bunchberry from McAuliffe's.

Autumn fern

Autumn fern

bunchberry

Under large Rhodie, should be a nice evergreen groundcover.

Replacing the evergreen huckleberry

That the dog dug up.

Yuletide Camellia

blueberries!

Two sunshine blues and a Pink Lemonade, from Molbak's.

red flowering currant, before move

Got pretty crispy in too much sun. Moving it to a shadier spot so we can put sun lovers there!

potted mums!

Let's see if I can keep them alive until frost.

A bulb?

I was tidying the mess of violas gone wild, and found two of these. I think it's a bulb - crocus? A little early, hmm?

blueberries

yummy tomatoes!

fuchsia from last year

Finally blooming!

Beans!

They were delicious!!

slugs, and a pepper

Cayenne pepper here, just barely growing. It put out a pepper but clearly doesnt like it.

Green bean seeds fll on the ground nearby and grew. Looks to me like a slug did a number on this one.

 

 

Cosmos are gorgeous, really, though need deadheading

 

MAYBE the crocosmia I moved will do OK.  Maybe not.  The red flowering currant behind it is definitely going to move.

 

 

Grape tomato!! Last of four!

 

 

 

Cherry tomato and green bean craziness

 

bean plant

This bean plant wound its way from the ground, up a glowing butterfly, into the blueberry plant, the into the red flowering currant and the pacific wax myrtle, and eventually over the fence into the neighbor's yard!

First huckleberry harvest!

Mid-August update

 First Toad Lily blooms of the year.

Unfortunately, the plant is a mess. There's a large aboveground spinkler there that beats the crap out of them. I bet they grow back fine next year. I do like them (though worry about their toxicity, even though it's not berries), and they're one of the few things that do well in the fall when most things have slowed down.  Maybe next year we can get the irrigation over here buried, and these can grow back in better shape!

First ripe huckleberry! Yes, I ate it, and yes, it was good!

Tomato plant has gone wild in the heat. Several bean plants are climbing all over the place, too, though I do't see any beans yet!

Yay! The fuchsia bloomed, and it's beautiful!

These Crocosmia look better and better every day. I love them!

Tomatoes! Actually getting ripe, too!