In between reconstructing my yard, working on other island yards and grounds, and prepping for farmers market vending soon, I’ve been sneaking as many daylight hours as I can in my own garden. All is in bloom right now. Plants and trees that began life here as bare root sticks several years ago are becoming juvenile plants. It’s exciting to see!
Eagerly awaiting the first blooms on a lilac that began life here as a bareroot stick several years ago. I also have a potted collection of different young lilacs a friend from another island thinned and dug out of her own garden a few years back, each with a different island pedigree carefully noted on ID tags. I can’t wait to finally plant them all along the permanent fencing I’ll be erecting later this season!
First year asparagus! Obviously too tiny to harvest this year, but in the coming years…
Despite my best netting efforts, the birds got into the sweet pea bed and ate all the seeds earlier in the season. Happily, I’ve found a few clusters of sweet peas growing in the shade of other large plants around the garden. The scavenging birds obviously took a break after the pilaging and deposited their spoils elsewhere. I’ve transplanted these too-large-for-birds-to-eat seedlings to one central location.