A girl and her camera on a warm, sunny day

Mountain Bluet
The petals remind me of eye lashes, and the flower bud
looks as if it has a black lacy netting wrapped around it.

This, my friends, is what a corn stalk looks like at two inches tall.
I am positively thrilled that the majority of the Carl's Glass Gem corn seeds have sprouted.

Flats of seedlings resting atop the al fresco dining table.  

Allium bursting from its papery husk.

Another variety of allium nearly in full bloom.

Life is thriving in Wright Gardens.  Carrot, radish, spinach, and beets (red and golden) are growing rapidly.  In fact, another row of each will be planted tomorrow for a successive crop.

Several strawberry flowers dot the strawberry bed, and all three of the raspberry bushes have noticeable flower heads forming.  It never cease to amaze me how quickly plants grow.  I've been carefully watching the raspberry bushes for flower formation and suddenly, overnight, it seems, there they are.  The same is true for the poppies.  The plants have been growing with vigor but no sign of the fuzzy flower heads until Wednesday morning.  Nothing was visible Tuesday but Wednesday morning the flower heads were between six and seven inches tall!  It would be so neat to have a time lapse camera to capture the growth of flowers in the yard.

The tulips are fading but as they do the allium, iris, poppies, and yarrow are shaping up to be the next round of color.  Oh, and I found a third praying mantis egg in the strawberry bed earlier this week!  That makes three total (that I'm aware of) in the yard.

Yours in soil,

Lisa