Gazania is very showy flower, originally from South Africa, seen at my visit to Swanson’s Nursery recently.

Starry, pointy, yellow and red petals of a gazania flower

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So happy to visit Swanson’s Nursery in NE Seattle today. Flowers!

Zinnias with many petals for the summer garden

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What an exciting plant is honeysuckle!

Pink and yellow honeysuckle in bloom

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Pretty lavender rose in my garden the other day.

Lavender rose with bud, in the garden

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The daylilies are taking over, but so beautiful.

Ruffled, double petalled orange daylily with red streaks in the garden

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I have a rose garden in front of my house. A few of the roses didn’t do too well so I replaced them with lavender. I’m very happy with the combination.

Curly willow tree on the left. Roses and lavender edged with sweet alyssum

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My hoya plant loves the heat this year, and has TWO flowers. Isn’t this one pretty?

Pale pink, white and red waxy flowers of the hoya carnosa plant

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Dark red cherries of some kind on my backyard 5-graft tree, right before I picked them. I lost the tags, so don’t know the exact name. But they are delicious! I really love this image and I am calling it my weekly Saturday Top Shot.

Shiny dark cherries hang from the tree

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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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