TEAS

Lemon Verbena Fresh Ginger
Dandelion Mint (eat greens with garlic and olive oil
Burdock root
Ginko builoba
Licorice
Rooibos chai with coconut amond milk
Hair Tea: Horsetail, Nettle, Rosemary
Raspberry Leaf
Hawthorn Leaf

Montie DAwn around the world in 80 gardens

Weeklies

June 1st:

Made Kitchen Garden Plan
Weeded black raspberries
Lilacs in bloom

June 7th:

Big DAY!
Weeded all lower garden
Did landscaping for front garden where clay oven and Cannas are going to be. Drew up map.
Planted Calendula and foxglove seedlings
Moved old stove into place as base for Clay Oven
Meals: For breakfast we had apricot and creme fraiche crepes YUM!
Salad with asparagus, chives and lettuce from the garden, tomatoes, green beans and a creme fraiche vinegrette
Mushroom bruschetta with basil


Also...I have decided to post a Bouquet of the Week as part of the "Weeklies" to keep track of the blooming patterns of all the flowers in bloom that day/week . So this is the June 7th Bouquet:
Wild Phlox: big straight White flowers
Lupin: droopy cone-like flowers
Geum:  orange flower (last flower of the season)
Pansies: purple flowers and yellow flowers
Primrose: purple and yellow flower on far right
Chervil: small white flowers on fairy-like lacy stems

Plant Combinations and Ideas

Red bee balm and blue cornflower

Front:
plant baptista or aconite between tiger lilies in spring

Kitchen Garden:
Coreopsis
Calendula
Violets
Scented germanium
Regular geraniums
Echinacea
Flowering beans and peas
Lettuce poppy (opium poppy)
Anchusa
Bachelors button and blue cornflower
Zinnia
sneezeweed
Foxglove
Delphinium
Sunflower

Nasturtium
Marigold
cosmos
Yellow star coreopsis
Borage
Rainbow chard
Canna
Calla

Back Garden:
Lavender in stone planter boxes like on rooftop garden

Birch Section:
Blue hydrangea by birch or hyssop or amsonia

Make section with Russian sage like Grammy's garden