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My front garden is finally filling in the bones of a beginning with the various flowers and seeds I have planted and sown over the last two years. It's becoming a riot of surprises - from knock-out roses, to daylilies, to purple cone flowers (they seem to REALLY like that part of the property!) to wave after wave of spider flower. Here and there a long buried petunia seed has taken hold and flowered in bright pinky purple; blanket flowers and rose campions - my own wee cottage garden!
I spent the majority of yesterday in the kitchen making jars upon jars of apricot preserves. The Prunus mumi trees on campus have finally made it through a spring without frost ruining their fruit, and after three years of lost blossoms, I was finally able to make 4 batches of sweet/tart preserves! YAHOO!
Today we're off to the Art Festival - fingers crossed for some sales (mercy, I need some paint! LOL) and some decent attendance. We're in for extremely high temps - in the mid 90sF ... so we're packing ice and lots of water ...
Hope your day is cool and fun!
This is just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI know you will sell lots!
Thanks for this colorful treat from your garden!!! Lovely job.
ReplyDeleteHope the show goes well and that you survive the heat. I used to do craft shows and went through all kinds of weather conditions...some that brought tears to my eyes. lol Have a great day!!!
Oh what glorious colors and they complement each other so beautifully. Such a lovely summer day painting -- as if the flowers were relaxing in the heat!!
ReplyDeleteI hope you sell out and have a good time, keeping cool and enjoying the day.
Hugs,
Lorraine