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

Plant Considerations for Next Year

• Italian Bugloss
• Siberian Bugloss
• Veronica
• Yarrow
• Cicumfugia
• Japanese Anenome
• Asters
• Solomans Seal
• Fleeceflower
• White Campanula
• Hollyhock
• Ajuga
• Blue Sage
• Valerian
• Cosmos sulphureus
• Amsonia
• Dahlia
• Russian Sage
• Yellow Iris
• Purple wheat
• Baptisa
• Climbing white Roses
• Lady in Red Aster
• Helebore

WILD FLOWERS

• Columbine Canadensis
• Cyprideum (Lady Slipper)
• Cornus (Bunchberry)
• Delphinium Cardinale
• Dicentra (Dutchmans breeches) 
• Dodecatheon (Shooting Star)
• Epilobium (Fireweed) http://www.dontveter.com/howtogrow/fireweed2000.jpg
• Erigonum (Wild Buckwheat)
• Geum (Prarie Smoke) http://www.prairiemoon.com/images/D/Geum-triflorum-Prairie-smoke-plant-closeup.jpg
• Gilia (Blue Thistle flower) http://www.robsplants.com/images/portrait/GiliaCapitata100626a.jpg
• Hepatica
• Pasque Flower

BULBS

• Agapanthus
• Bletilla (hardy orchid) http://www.orchidmall.com/general/bouq.jpg
• Crocosmia
• Dahlia
• Foxtail lily
• Frittilaria persica
• Lapeirowa
• Ranunculus
• Zephyr lilies

Flowers from Garden Tour:

Master Wort

Cup plants ( huge ones)
Catonia aster ground cover (mini version)
Bunchberry
Cranes bill ( looks like columbine)
Hellebore Linton rose
Weeping caragara
Speedwell ground cover
Trifolium
Campanula lactiflora
American chestnut
Japanese lilac
Tree peony
Cranby corbefolia relation to sea kale
Shade garden
Jack in the pulpit
Herb Robert (local geranium)
Wood poppy
Arum italicum
Bottle brush buckeye

Little white pet rose
Giant hyssop

Weeklies

This ones going to require some back logging since my posting has been remiss...

So last weekend; Canadian Thanksgiving:

Totally gorgeous weekend!
HARVEST:
- 2 large zucchini! I cant believe its still  producing!
-yellow crookneck squash, a couple of tiny pattipan
-the big orange pumpkin/squash in lower garden
-TONS of cherry tomatoes, yellow and red
-mortgage lifter, black prince and yellow peach heirloom variety tomatoes, only a couple yellow peach were ripe the rest I will have to ripen indoors using the banana box method... conclusion start tomato seeds in mid March dammit!
-Kale, curly leaf and cavallo nero, chard, nasturtium blossom
-Parsely, chives, oregano, mint, rosemary and the rest of the basil for immediate use or drying
-Leeks,Carrots,
-There are still TONS of apples int he tree down the lane, we picked a huge laundry basket full and didn't even get them all!
GARDEN:
It is a beautiful time of year to be and work in the garden now, perfect weather and no bugs! I have resolved to plant more autumn blooming flowers and shape a better fall garden. I can sit in the garden for hours at this time of year so it makes sense to have it just as beautiful and lush as midsummer when I can only be down there for a few minutes at time before getting swarmed and attacked!

Weeklies

I should really call these monthlies or bimonthlies since I suck so much at updating them :P...

Sept 7

• Took a panorama of the lower garden today, gives you a much better idea of what its like
• Goldenglobe in full bloom
• made some more pickles

Sept 22

Harvest:

well you can see!

• crab apples, tomatoes: Mortgage lifter,black prince, yellow peach, tomatillos, zucchini, pattipan squash, carrots, radicchio, leeks, herbs. (I  have to admit the pumpkin is not ours I just added it in for the photo)
• Flowers are from clockwise from bottom left: marigolds, Rudebeckia (normal kind), Rudebeckia"ruby Tuesday", echinacea, mixed nasturtiums, red sunflowers
• Bed 7 looks gorgeous this time of year, the wild aster I transplanted really pulls it together.

 ...and some nice pics of the kitchen garden and the lower garden:

...packing the bouquet up for the ride back to the city :)

Weeklies

BACKLOG:

Aug 20

• Sunflowers!

• Harvest: zucchini, eggplant, hungarian peppers,
• Dad planted second crop of lettuce and propagated currant bushes, made an amazing Ratatouille
• planted white Delphinuim
• Phlox at full bloom
• Discovered vertical gardening book! 

Aug 6

Harvest:

• zucchini, wax beans, 1st tomato (from Jean talon)

July 27/28

• Weeded/ cleared Lower Garden
• Kitchen Garden:
• Weeded front patch where oregano is
• Dug up 108 tulips
• First zucchini and green bean harvest

July 20

• Weeded Front garden

Planted:

• patches of Sunflowers
• Rudebekia from Atwater market

Kitchen Garden:

• Dad planted bean seedlings
• Edamae in tomato bed
• Lower Garden:
• Lima by beets in lower garden
• Planted winter squash by sunflower

July 13

• Dad planted beets in lower garden

July 6

• Subdivided purple brocolli plants and mixed kale plants
• Added a trench of manure down center of eggplant bed
• sectioned off porch with Mosquito netting woot!
• planted gladiolas by poppy (and got stung in the eyelid!)