The Garden in June

We ended June with an open garden event where garden club members and friends came to visit our gardens. About 16 people came and many commented on some of the unusual plants that we have (a huge thistle, a banana tree, a teasel plant, a bitter orange thorn tree, etc). We have many pictures that we need to take but here is another slide show with a few of them. Look for the little flower beds made within the rocks. One of the fenced gardens is the 'Corner' garden that we created earlier this year. The fenced raised bed is where we plant one type of each dahlia that we have. The tall red flowers are bee balm. There are a few lilies as well. The tall yellow flowers are false sunflowers. It was fun to walk around with people and try to identify the plants that didn't have markers (the markers don't last long).  We gave away seeds from our red Columbine which finished flowering a few weeks ago.  We are going to plant the seeds and see if we can get some more later this summer.

We are planning on a trip tomorrow (July 2nd) to an outlet mall in Massachusetts with the Dave and Joann Postma (and Jo's mom). It has over 170 stores - we should be busy. Too bad we have a very small, limited budget but it will be fun to look anyway.