Huckleberries

The second year huckleberries are loaded!

First tomato!

Tiny grape tomato growing

Potentilla pink beauty

Budding again!

Hardy geranium ballerina

Looking pretty sad

Jacob's ladder

Love it!

Poor deer fern 2

Fresh green growth! It will live, I think!

Bellflower birch hybrid

Late season cheapie from home depot

Astilbe

Better photo

Clover is like cats.

I realized tonight that clover is like cats.  When a clover patch is little, it's cute, like a tiny kitten.  Such a sweet little grouping of attractive green petals among the grass! So sweet!

Then it grows up into a cat.  I mean, a patch of large clover. With big ugly white clover flowers. And gigantic clovers that take over your flowers and grass. And tremendous root systems -- I had no idea they were that tenacious.  Wow.  Just like a cute little kitten growing up to be an ugly, obnoxious, dinner-wrecking, door-clawing, sleep-ruining stupid cat, the cute little clovers turn into aggressive less-cute thugs. So, out it goes.  Goodbye clover, at least in the flower beds. I suspect you're in the lawn for good. Like my cat, who also refuses to get old.

If I ever have to name a cat again (and I hope like hell I don't), I'm naming it clover.

Moved three crocosmia

Moved from behind vine maple which leafed out with a much larger footprint than last year, hiding three of the four I planted completely in shade. Moved them to the east fence. No idea if they will look silly among blueberries and currants, but we'll see!

June fall color

On the vine maple, too!

Ocean spray

Hot peppers

Cayenne pepper (on the right) doesn't look like it's going to make it. Jalapeño (on the left) might - it has a flower, at least!

Not yet, please, maple

Red hot pokers

Red flowering currant

If those were to be berries... something went wrong.

Red flowering currant nearest to the pacific sunset maple.

There ARE berries lower down that are big and green and healthy-looking. Not these!

Mostly rusted serviceberry

Most berries are orange with rust, but some are bright red! Yay!

Robin hill serviceberry

Not thriving, not dying.

Fuschia!

Love my hardy fuschia!

Astilbe

Astilbe and deer fern. Astilbe finally taking on beautiful pink color!

Too bad the photo quality is so poor. I'll have to get the good camera and get a good picture of the astilbe -- they really are nice!

Vancouveria under scraggly rhodie

Didn't plant any anywhere near here. Stuff loves growing in this backyard.

Blueberries

Please no mummyberry! Looking good!

Toad lilies

Toad lilies planted last fall are doing well (after sluggo awhile back), very tall and full. But many of the lower leaves are yellow and brown. Don't know why.

Not working out

Spinach and bok choy.
spinach weird, bok copy half slug-eaten and half bolted. Oops.

Geraniums gone wild

Should have kept staking the peas.

I went out to find a stake for the peas, now that they are so much higher than the deck.
In the last half hour since I thought I should, they broke. Well below must of the pods.
Damn.

Dianthus

Love it here.

So do the cottonwood droppings.  So ... much ... cottonwood to clean up.

Jacob's Ladder

Finally has some blooms!

Hardy fuschia

Despite the best efforts of moles and dogs, the hardy fuschia are booming. Love them.

Poor Deer Fern

 This deer fern pretty well ... um... well. You can see it's not as happy as it was a couple of weeks ago.

I dug it up, and never realized how rootbound it was. Cut the heck out of it and unwound it all and cut out the dead parts. Wonder if any of it will live?

Poor deer fern. You deserved better.

Geraniums patricia and album

Crocosmia "little redhead"

From molbak's