I’ve been growing potatoes in a different way, and it is looking like my best potatoes ever. My friend told me how to do it and let me collect bags of dried leaves from under her trees to use. I started with a layer of good dirt and fertilizer (about 6″), put the potatoes just under the surface, watered well, and as they grew kept adding dried leaves, letting some green tops stay uncovered, keeping it well watered, adding more leaves as I could. This bin was started at the very end of April, and look at it today! Below are the flowers from the red potatoes.

Landscape cloth stapled to some wooden stakes form the outside of this backyard potato bin.

Lavender potato flowers from red potatoes

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That late afternoon light is so generous with shadows. Which image do you prefer? Long shot or close up?

Golden hour light in Des Moines, WA

Red roses cast shadows on a blue fence in the last rays of sun

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A very artistic friend has the most marvelous living room.

Antlers and roses and a chandelier decorate this living space filled with art

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I adore peonies. These delicate flowers are from my garden.

Pink peony with bright yellow center

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While strolling Burien WA’s Art Walk last week, I saw this mixed blossom bouquet in such an unusual color scheme, sitting in front of a business.

An array of red and yellow flowers including roses, tulips and alstroemeria or Peruvian lily

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The columbines look very good this year. They respond very well to an acid fertilizer in the spring, and the flowers are big and plentiful. Here is one pretty one in a shaft of sunlight, with some rose campion in the foreground.

Yellow and red columbine (aquilegia) in the shade

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A week or two ago, driving around Burien, WA, I saw this house. Color to the max.

Sky blue house with red and pinky-purple rhododendrons

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My roses have begun. This year I used a better kind of fertilizer, with micro-nutrients, and am VERY happy with the results. Worth the money.

Deep red rose in my garden

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My friend has hydrangeas already in full bloom in her shady garden.

Different colors of hydrangeas blooming in the shade

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More peonies.

Delicate pink and white peonies, with a dash of red, in my garden

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