Orange and purple bed

Today the roar, lilies, lavender and orangey grass are blooming. The red hot pokers are done and crocosmia is just beginning. 

Deck pots

I love big pots of color on the deck - the hummingbirds enjoy them too. Last winter was mild and the geraniums, gerbera daisies, carnations, and some marigold mists and lobelia are blooming again this year. 

Raspberries!

The season is in full swing - 18+ baskets today and 17 on Tuesday - 65 total so far. The vines are still loaded with ripening berries - it may be a record year!

Strawberry jam

Nothing like jam made from fresh local WA strawberries - yum!

Tiger lily

Beautiful orange lilies in the orange and purple bed - bulbs my mom gave me years ago.

Mrs. Flicker

Female flicker drinking before filling up at the suet feeder. 

Raspberries

Let the raspberry season begin - 9 days ahead of last year! Will it be a 100+ pint season this year?

First ripe raspberry

The season begins a bit earlier in 2013

Vegetable garden

Here is the red leaf lettuce planted mid April which we have been eating for a couple weeks. The beets aren't ready yet.

The pole beans were planted on June 1 and sprouted out in 6 days.

Hummingbird

The hummingbird really likes the orange tubular flowers on the cigar plant

Coffee on the deck

First time this season for morning coffee on the deck - enjoying the birds and flowers.

New planting bed

After 13 years a few heather plants had overgrown the area blocking 2 sprinklers and crowding out other plants. So I dug them out, added some rocks, parahebes, black mondo grass, some hen and chicks and a clump of stonecrop. I spread Cedar Grove compost around and added a couple solar lights. The sprinklers are now useful again. The plants should fill in the space and remain low to avoid sprinkler issues.