First Days of June

I did a lot of planting and mulching over the past few days. Now I'm really sore and tired. But I have a feeling of accomplishment.

Herbs in a container: spicy globe basil, golden sage, English thyme and a curly parsley. This is partly decorative but partly utilitarian for those times when I'm too lazy to walk all the way out to the herb garden.

One of the containers for the lower deck: a double purple datura, licorice vine, and blue petunia.

Another lower deck container: silver vine, purple flowered plant I can't remember the name of but I got it at Andrew's Greenhouse, and a piece of the miscanthus "Morning Light" that I dug up and divided from the St. Francis Garden.

I planted five of those heirloom variegated foliage "Fish" hot peppers in the back perennial border. Also nicely mulched.

Sunken garden is mostly mulched. The wisteria is starting to bloom.

A nice little shady sitting area under the upper deck where I can also put my houseplants out of the intense summer sun. I ate my lunch out there today and watched the hummingbirds coming to the feeder I've hung from the pergola.

I weeded and mulched the middle part of the back perennial border. Also planted a castor bean plant and three Santaka (asian type) hot pepper plants near the back and five creeping thyme plants in the front.

Planted the pineapple sage, columnar variegated basil, sweet basil, thai basil, white sage, bay leaf, lemon grass and parsley (curled and Italian flat leaf) in the herb garden after weeding. No mulch on this.

Two purple verbena and a variegated vinca vine are in the window box of the shed.

New Earth Box in back has grape tomato and Sun Gold tomato. Next is the Earth Box that had the broccoli in it. I've eaten all but one stalk already. As an experiment I planted 3 okra, one bell pepper, one hot pepper and one eggplant to see how they do in the Earth Box. Front box had Swiss Chard that I started from seed.

Raised bed has snap peas on right, then a row of squash and cukes I started from seed, then a row of eggplant. In front is an extra summer squash in a container.

Earth box in front has two patio (determinate) tomato plants in it that I started from seed. They are tiny! The arugula and radishes are doing well. I planted more arugula, some mesclun, cilantro, spinach and beets recently in the back of this raised bed. No sunflowers this year!

Shade container with a coleus and three petunias.

Containers for beside the front door: orange marigolds, magenta wave petunias, vinca vine, and cannas

Same combo in container in front of garage