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How Does Your Garden Grow

Jun 17, 2018 ·

asiatic lily

This week’s walk around the garden featured a few lovely surprises like this Asiatic lily. Multiple blooms on hearty stems peppered across the backyard truly stand out. Orange is the new black for a reason and so worth the dirt under my nails.

goats beard plant

Aptly named “goat’s beard” this hearty shrub is a wonderful back drop to those colorful lillies. So worth my aching back.

pink dianthus

Low growing dianthus spreads an electric pink carpet along the border. It’s sweet fragrance is just a bonus. So worth me feeling my age.

A shady area allows these astilbe to thrive. These feathery flowers come in many gorgeous colors. So worth the sweat on my brow.

tomato plant

I get pretty excited when the fruit and vegetables show themselves. Please local deer keep away!

strawberry plant

Like small jewels these French strawberries are something special. I love them for breakfast or floating in a glass of wine come evening. The best is letting my granddaughter pick them. She pops them right into her mouth. How fun is that?

chicks and hens succulents

The rock garden features a bounty of succulents. Interesting shapes and colors and easy to care for “chicks and hens” are quite a contrast to the rest of the garden. They need no help from me to flourish.

asparagus ferns

Like all good things in the garden the perennials need to restore their root systems. After a bounty of delicious asparagus I must let some stalks mature into ferns. As they replenish themselves the ferns create the most lush green screen along the fence. Those unpicked spears grow about 6 feet tall and later develop eye-popping red berries.

butterfly on Joe pye weed

Have a beautiful week. Plant some seeds. Stop and smell the roses. Tell someone you love them.

<3

gardening, vegetable garden therapy

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  1. Evelyn says

    June 17, 2018 at 8:16 am

    Beautiful pictures………..I love you! đź’ž

    • Lisa says

      June 17, 2018 at 8:23 am

      thank you and I love you, too. Hope you are having a great time with the kids

  2. rainbowwayfarms says

    June 17, 2018 at 9:18 am

    Beautiful! I love you! XOXOXO

    • Lisa says

      June 17, 2018 at 3:51 pm

      Thanks and love you, too. I know your gardens will be plentiful

  3. karemack74 says

    June 17, 2018 at 2:32 pm

    Gorgeous flowers 🌸 Lisa, Rob tries so hard here but the hot sun & no rain it’s hard. Happy Father’s Day to Bill! ♥️

    • Lisa says

      June 17, 2018 at 3:50 pm

      Happy Father’s Day to Rob. I know he must miss his gardens and apple trees.

  4. Tracy Matino says

    June 17, 2018 at 6:00 pm

    Magnificent!

    • Lisa says

      June 17, 2018 at 8:47 pm

      I know you are growing some great things too

  5. patcook1 says

    June 17, 2018 at 7:50 pm

    Lovely.

    • Lisa says

      June 17, 2018 at 8:47 pm

      Thanks

  6. Angela@eatlivehappy says

    June 18, 2018 at 2:02 am

    What a lovely garden. Those dianthus! Beautiful!

    • Lisa says

      June 18, 2018 at 7:10 am

      The garden brings great joy after all the hard work. Mother Nature is amazing

  7. cookinformyboys says

    June 18, 2018 at 7:47 am

    What a beautiful and diverse garden you have! I have no asparagus knowledge so that was just fascinating. Please post more photos of the “asparagus progress”.

    • Lisa says

      June 18, 2018 at 11:22 am

      The asparagus starts out as 2 or 3 year old bare brown roots that are planted in shallow trenches. The asparagus grows but no harvest until the roots are about 4 years old and established. Then each year more and more Spears grow and I harvest only some of them and let the rest grow into ferns to replenish the roots for the following year. I give them a little fertilizer every spring and surround them with hay to keep the weeds down. If I cover the emerging stalks and don’t let them get any sun then I get white asparagus

      • cookinformyboys says

        June 18, 2018 at 7:39 pm

        Wow!! That’s amazing!

  8. Lou Matino says

    June 18, 2018 at 10:50 am

    I didn’t know asparagus grow into a type of fern. Go figure.

    • Lisa says

      June 18, 2018 at 11:23 am

      Very pretty kind of looks like dill

  9. Carol W says

    June 20, 2018 at 4:36 pm

    From your friend Carol (aka “black thumb”) I sure do admire your skills in the garden. The pictures are incredible! I’ll never forget the size of your basil plant when I was down visiting a couple years ago, it was like a shrub! Miss you mama…Hugs xoxo
    PS: we took Tommy strawberry picking at Lyman Orchards, he too loved popping the sweet red “jewels” into his little mouth! So cute!

    • Lisa says

      June 20, 2018 at 7:59 pm

      Very different than my garden in CT. Everything grows like weeds here and with less effort. Still I am feeling my age. So glad you had fun strawberry picking with your gran-babies ❤️

  10. Martine Fusco says

    June 21, 2018 at 7:25 am

    I knew your gardens would be beautiful! You are so talented… did not know anything about asparagus… . I’d love to see the tall fern like growth at its peak! Very cool

    • Lisa says

      June 21, 2018 at 1:10 pm

      I will send you some asparagus photos. It’s one of my favorite vegetables roasted or grilled

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