I have big plans for the garden space to the south of the greenhouse but I haven’t had the time or money to implement them yet. That area was covered with weeds and looked pretty sad.

My weekend travel plans were interrupted by a covid exposure so I hunkered down and started cleaning up the area. I got about 2/3 of it done.

Below are some flower/plant photos from the garden/greenhouse this week.

Every day something else blooms in the yard! Seattle has a potential of snow this weekend but the plants are laughing at the forecast and just doing their thing.

Here are a bunch of photos from the last few days.

Today Leon installed an amazing dragonfly sculpture he created on the Douglas fir trunk! It is very cool!

Today I transplanted over 200 petunias–they are a scented, climbing variety and I’m hoping they get enough growth to be valuable for patio pots and filling in around the garden. And lots will be given away.

The memory garden is filling in quickly. The growth is miraculous, really. Where does it all come from? The photo on the left was from 2/26, and the one on the right is from today.

One of my favorite bulbs has reappeared for about the twelfth year in a row–my Fritillaria imperialis. The form is so interesting and the color is a bright spot in a shady spot under the Douglas fir.

I have a love/hate relationship with the Camellia in our garden. It has gotten completely out of hand in size and has adopted a poor shape. The flowers don’t make a nice show, typically, because I’ve neglected the shrub as a whole. But taken individually, I can find beauty in the flowers. It has two kinds–smaller ones that are less than double, and huge blooms that are very double. This year it must be stressed because most of the flowers are the smaller type.

Below are some Pleine flower pictures from the greenhouse this week–so fantastic and showy, somewhere between starlets and harlots.