The irises are almost in full bloom, and we have lots of them!
purple and white bearded iris
yellow bearded iris
First bloom on the comfrey, with first harvest coming on Monday. Comfrey is a wonderful, healing herb for your skin and features in Half Wild Green Wonder Salve - perfect for working hands and troubled skin.
This volunteer pink columbine comes up each spring out of the middle of a rock wall, between the horseradish and the comfrey, and well shaded by an ancient hawthorn tree. Herbs always find a way.
The chives are blooming! I used to harvest the blossoms for chive blossom vinegar, but now I leave them for the bees.
The grapes are blooming! I rarely catch a glimpse of them this time of year, among the explosion of greenery that signals a North Country June.
We have lots and lots of Siberian irises. I wish they bloomed all year!
The lupines are just starting to bloom.
Here’s one of the few lupine spikes that have bloomed already.
Thanks for wandering with me!
It's been quite a year for wildlife in the garden. Here are a few photos I took this week of our newest residents...
Read MoreWe tend to think of vast box store parking lots as wastelands, but there are herbs growing even there. Herbs specialize in growing where other plants fear to tread — bold, strong, survivors. Here are the shots from my wander between box store parking lots this afternoon.
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