The garden is overwhelming right now in its beauty and bursting at the seams with life.
I harvested Goumi berries today, which is rewarding, if a bit tedious. I usually just use these for smoothies. They have a tart-sweet flavor and a big pit in the middle of each berry, and each comes with a stem that needs to be removed. The berries ripen at different rates so I had to pick just the ripe ones. Here they are, all cleaned up and ready to freeze.
On the patio, a hawthorn tree that we’ve had in a pot for close to twenty years is blooming–as best we can remember, for the first time.
I took cuttings today of native and non-native plants, red flowered currants, thimbleberries, salmonberries, red osier dogwwood, dwarf lilac, goumi berry, and aronia. I’m hoping I hit the timing right on these–it would be great if a bunch of them rooted.
With my macro lens, I captured a few fun photos in the greenhouse.
Some Hippeastrums are still blooming in the greenhouse:
