The warm temperatures and sun over the last 5 days has given things quite a boost. There are darners flying around the garden and a good variety of both domestic and wild flowers blooming in the garden. The crab apples (Malus fusca) are in full bloom on this end of the island.
I haven't spent much time in the garden this year. I've been too busy hiking on the weekends and going in an absurd number of directions. Fortunately the flowers are mostly perennials and seem to be still mostly outcompeting the rhizomatous grasses, chickweed and arabis. I franticly planted most of the vegetable garden before I went to Fairbanks on the 31st and added a few more seeds this evening. Now, there's garlic, horseradish, rhubarb, 3 kinds of onions, french sorrel, potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, lettuce, joi choi, brocoli, basil, zucchini, and a variety of herbs growing or hopefully gr
owing.
owing. The blue and purle columbines (I think that the one in the photo is a flabellata cross) are beginning to hit there peak. I need to stop culling the hybrids that didn't work out. By "work out" I mean have flowers that are pleasing in appearance. There are a few that are down right ugly.
